Thursday, February 14, 2013

Excerpts from Bavink's Reformed Dogmatics vol.2: The Centre of all dogmatics - God.



The great and all pervasive subject of church dogmatics, sermons, and theology is and always must be God himself.  Herman Bavink makes this point right out of the gate in volume 2 of his Reformed Dogmatics.  He says…

“All the doctrine treated in dogmatics, in sermons, or in other theological treatises, whether they concern the universe, humanity, Christ, and so forth - are but the explication of the one central dogma of the knowledge of God.  All things are considered in light of God, subsumed under him, traced back to him as the starting point....this has practical usefulness in life...the more (we) reflect on God, the knowledge of whom is its (dogma, theology, sermons) only content, the more we will be moved to adoration and worship.  The fact is “The knowledge of God-in-Christ is life itself (Ps 89:16; Is 11:9; Jer 31:34; Jn 17:3).” (Page 29)

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