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. Links Along with James Eglinton and Marinus DeJong, Drs. Brock and Sutanto host the Grace in Common podcast. N. Gray Sutanto, “Consummation Anyway” Journal of Analytic Theology, Vol. 9, Summer 2021 Chapters 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 Participants: Camden Bucey, Cory Brock, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto