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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A leading expert offers a definitive biography of renowned Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Dutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck, a significant voice in the development of Protestant theology, remains relevant many years after his death. His four-volume <i>Reformed Dogmatics</i> is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century.<br/><br/>James Eglinton is widely considered to be at the forefront of contemporary interest in Bavinck's life and thought. After spending considerable time in the Netherlands researching Bavinck, Eglinton brings to light a wealth of new insights and previously unpublished documents to offer a definitive biography of this renowned Reformed thinker.<br/><br/>The book follows the course of Bavinck's life in a period of dramatic social change, identifying him as an orthodox Calvinist challenged with finding his feet in late modern culture. Based on extensive archival research, this critical biography presents numerous significant and previously ignored or unknown aspects of Bavinck's person and life story. A black-and-white photo insert is included.<br/><br/>This volume complements other Baker Academic offerings on Bavinck's theology and ethics, which together have sold 90,000 copies.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><b>"Impeccably researched and thoroughly readable"<br/></b><br/>"When it comes to theologians that contemporary church leaders should be reading, I don't know of a more important one than Herman Bavinck. No one can grasp the theology of an Augustine or Aquinas, a Calvin or Luther, without knowing their life and context. James Eglinton has provided this in his new critical biography of the greatest Reformed theologian of the twentieth century. A very important yet highly readable volume."<br/>--<b>Timothy Keller</b>, pastor emeritus, Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York City<br/><br/>"Impeccably researched and thoroughly readable, James Eglinton's biography of Herman Bavinck deserves a wide readership. As Eglinton invites us into Bavinck's faithful and creative engagement with pluralism, psychology, Nietzsche, education for women, evangelism, missions, racism in America, and politics, we see that we still have much to learn from this member of the great cloud of witnesses."<br/>--<b>Kristen Deede Johnson</b>, Western Theological Seminary<br/><br/>"Eglinton demonstrates that Bavinck was a brilliant, creative theologian. For those who are discovering that brilliance in Bavinck's writings newly translated into English, we now have the gift of a wonderfully readable and informative narrative of Bavinck's spiritual and theological journey. This important book confirms what many of us have been convinced of for some time now: Bavinck's time has come as a world-class theologian for our own day."<br/>--<b>Richard Mouw</b>, president emeritus, Fuller Theological Seminary<br/><br/>"Eglinton is the modern biographer Herman Bavinck deserves. Eglinton is a theologian who is inspired by Bavinck's search for an orthodox engagement with the modern world, knows this world and Bavinck's works well, reads them in Dutch, has researched Bavinck's papers meticulously as a historian, and composes and writes smoothly, as Bavinck himself did. What a treat that Bavinck has this kindred spirit as biographer."<br/>--<b>George Harinck</b>, historian, The Neo-Calvinism Research Institute, TU Kampen<br/><br/>"Eglinton's biography of Bavinck is outstanding. Scholarly but accessible, it offers an account of Bavinck's life and work in its historical context. The picture that emerges here is neither that of a reactionary conservative nor that of a man divided against himself, as others have claimed, but that of a churchman navigating the waters of modernity with the tools of a deep and devout theological tradition. A wonderful companion volume to the <i>Dogmatics</i>."<br/>--<b>Carl R. Trueman</b>, Grove City College<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>James Eglinton </b>(PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. He previously served as senior researcher in systematic and historical theology at the Theologische Universiteit Kampen. Eglinton is the author or editor of several books, including <i>Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers</i>. He also serves as associate editor of the <i>Journal of Reformed Theology</i>.

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