A Theological Introduction to Neo-Calvinism

Today we welcome Cory C. Brock and N. Gray Sutanto to speak about their book, Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction (Lexham Academic), which is an excellent initiation and explication of neo-Calvinism as a nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement in the Netherlands. It was “a revival of Reformed confessionalist theology in the Netherlands roughly beginning with the rise of Kuyper as a theology, with the founding of the Vrije Universiteit in 1880, the formation of the Gereformeerde Kerken in 1892, and its systematization in the theological output of Herman Bavinck (p. 4).”

Cory C. Brock is minister at St. Columba’s Free Church of Scotland in Edinburgh and adjunct lecturer in theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary and Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. Heh is the author of Orthodox yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher.

N. Gray Sutanto is assistant professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and the author of God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck’s Theological Epistemology of God. He is an associate fellow at the Neo-Calvinism Research Institute.

00:00:07 Introduction
00:01:24 Grace in Common
00:04:26 Defining Neo-Calvinism
00:15:08 What Is "Neo" about Neo-Calvinism?
00:21:37 Grace Restores/Perfects Nature
00:32:13 Anonymous Neo-Calvinists
00:40:54 Catholicity and Ecumenicity
00:48:45 Worldview
01:00:34 Developing a Global View of Christianity
01:08:45 Conclusion

This is Christ the Center episode 787 (https://www.reformedforum.org/ctc787)