Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers

by James P. Eglinton (Translator), James P. Eglinton (Editor)

Overview

Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (18541921) is widely celebrated as one of the most eloquent divines in the Reformed tradition. Despite having preached regularly throughout his adult life, how he preached and what he thought about preaching have remained largely unknown to the many preachers who read him in the present day-until now. This book provides an English translation of Bavinck's key texts on preaching and preachers, including his only published sermon.

For Bavinck, in order to preach well, one has to be a particular kind of person: someone who lives coram Deo, whose conscience and imagination are open to being powerfully stirred by both Creator and the creation, and who is steeped in Scripture. In short, he describes someone quite different from the detached, disenchanted modern Western people of Bavinck's own day. These texts provide a profound critique of modern Western culture, and describe the sense in which it often prevents its inhabitants from preaching well. Furthermore, they demonstrate both how Bavinck himself preached, and how he understood preaching within the worship service and the wider life of the church.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781619709782
Publisher:	Hendrickson Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	798,747
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

James P. Eglinton (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is the Meldrum Lecturer in Reformed Theology at New College, University of Edinburgh. He is a systematic and historical theologian who has written extensively on Herman Bavinck. His first book, the acclaimed Trinity and Organism (Bloomsbury, 2012), offers a new reading of Bavinck as both an orthodox and a modern figure.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction James P. Eglinton 1

Bavinck's Foreword to Eloquence 17

Eloquence 21

The Sermon and the Service 57

The World-Conquering Power of Faith 67

On Preaching in America 85

Appendix: On Language 89

Notes 95

Bibliography 115

Index of Names 121

Index of Subjects 123