Bavinck: A Critical Biography

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, we reach “across the pond” for insight on the much-anticipated critical biography of Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck. James Eglinton, the Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology at New College, the University of Edinburgh, wrote the bio. Eglinton is acknowledged for his pivotal role in extending Bavinck’s popularity outside the Dutch-speaking world. James tells us where and when his interest in the life of Bavinck began, and what it was about the Dutch theologian that first caught Eglinton’s attention. Bavinck was a man of his day, very much attuned to modernity and its challenges, yet sensitive to the theological needs of a broad spectrum of laypeople. What more can we learn from this intriguing figure, and why should Christians care about Bavinck today? We are excited to give away copies of Bavinck: A Critical Biography.Register for the opportunity to win one. The books are a complimentary gift from Baker Academic.

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Zondervin Bibles, featuring the new NASB Journal, The Word, Reference Bible.
0:06.5	Let Scripture explain Scripture and reflect on what you learn. Listen for more at the end of today's program. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:36.1	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:41.4	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:58.5	Welcome to Mortificationification of Spin.
1:04.1	My name's Carl Truman, professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in beautiful western Pennsylvania.
1:07.7	And I'm here with my usual co-host, Todd Pruitt.
1:08.9	Let me get it correct.
1:09.6	Okay.
1:15.7	Covenant PCA, Harrisonburg, Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Is that correct? You got it. You got it. I'm pretty much word perfect on
1:20.7	this now. After only one, you are. You are. Eight years or something like that. It's only taken
1:24.3	that long. Well, we have a special guest today.
1:33.0	My fondest memory of this gentleman is I was sitting in my office at the University of of Aberdeen, I think I was around about the year 1999, 2000, and a young student who was a member
1:40.4	of the student group at the church where my wife and I were very much involved in running
1:44.3	the student group, came into my office and told me that he was planning to stop studying law
1:50.5	and go off and study theology. What do I think about that? And I told him, I think I said,
1:55.2	I didn't think there very much of that. But we needed to continue doing law, do theology later because theologians are
2:03.8	basically unemployable and it's good to have a plan B. I don't have a plan B. If I lose my
2:11.0	job, I'm done. Thankfully, this young man did take my advice, but has never had to use his plan B.
2:19.7	He's now a respectable gent, a distinguished scholar, the founder of, indeed, we might say, a school,
2:30.2	the English language school of the study of Herman Barvink.
2:35.5	He is, of course, James Egglinton, the Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reform Theology at New College, Edinburgh,
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