Reformed Social Ethics Perspectives on Society, Culture, State, Church, and the Kingdom of God

by Herman Bavinck

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2025

Overview

In the process of translating Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics, John Bolt and his editorial colleagues discovered that the social ethics portion was unfinished. The first section will now be published as Reformed Ethics, vol. 3. The other five sections were outlined by Bavinck, but not completed. Following Bavinck’s outline, John Bolt has reconstructed those last five sections on the basis of his extensive knowledge of Bavinck’s work, culling Bavinck’s other writings, in both Dutch and English, to summarize his teachings.

This companion to Reformed Ethics offers readers Bavinck’s main convictions and perspectives on critical topics of social ethics: society, art, scholarship, education, the state, the church, humanity, and the kingdom of God.

Reformed Social Ethics completes the Reformed Ethics project and provides readers with a fuller picture of Bavinck’s ethics.

Key Features

• Offers readers Bavinck’s main convictions and perspectives on critical topics of social ethics
• Covers society, art, scholarship, education, the state, the church, humanity, and the kingdom of God
• Provides a companion to Reformed Ethics

Product Details

• Title: Reformed Social Ethics: Perspectives on Society, Culture, State, Church, and the Kingdom of God
• Author: Herman Bavinck
• Series: Reformed Ethics
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 224
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian sociology › Reformed Church; Social ethics
• ISBNs: 9781540968128, 9781493449286, 9781493449293, 154096812X, 1493449281, 149344929X
• Resource ID: LLS:RFRMDSCLKNGDMGD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-19T03:30:06Z

About Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck (1854–1921), was a Dutch Reformed theologian who contributed to the resurgence of Reformed theology. Bavinck studied at Kampen Theological Seminary and the University of Leiden and graduated in 1880. He taught at both Kampen Theological Seminary and Free University and was a contemporary of Abraham Kuyper and B. B. Warfield, both of whom he knew well.

His most well-known publications include his four-volume Reformed Dogmatics and The Philosophy of Revelation.