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'Nightmares and Daydreams' Fuses Jakarta's Social Ills With the Supernatural

Aug 23, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | N. Gray Sutanto

Indonesia is an enchanted culture full of folklore involving ghosts, demons, and djinns (shape-shifting spirits from Arabian and Muslim mythology). These stories usually involve a moral of some kind: Do not leave a house unattended, for this invites the dwelling of demons. Always respect the elderly, lest they return to haunt you. Settle squabbles within your family, or their spirit will fail to transition to the afterlife due to unresolved conflicts on earth.
Bavinck advirtió que sin el cristianismo, el racismo y el nacionalismo irían en aumento

Jul 16, 2024 | hechoencalifornia1010.com | N. Gray Sutanto

No es ningún secreto que el teólogo holandés Herman Bavinck ha disfrutado de un renacimiento en los últimos años, como también señaló James Eglinton en un artículo previo para CT. Desde que se publicó la traducción al inglés de la histórica obra de Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics[Dogmática reformada] en 2008, y su versión condensada en un solo volumen en español en 2023, ha habido un flujo constante de nuevas lecturas acerca de su vida y pensamiento.
Bavinck Warned that Without Christianity, Racism and Nationalism Thrive

Jun 17, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | N. Gray Sutanto

It's no secret that Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years, as James Eglinton also pointed out in a previous piece for CT. Ever since the English translation of Bavinck's landmark work, Reformed Dogmatics, was released in 2008, there's been a constant stream of fresh readings of his life and thought.
5 Principles for Reading Herman Bavinck

Apr 26, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | N. Gray Sutanto |Rebecca McLaughlin |Brett McCracken |Justin Taylor

With the publication of an English translation of Herman Bavinck’s Christianity and Science in 2023 and the growing literature on his thought, more and more readers are now considering his theology and the neo-Calvinist tradition he represents.1 Picking up Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics, Christianity and Science or Philosophy of Revelation, however, can be daunting. His prose is elegant, but he interacts with 19th- and 20th-century European scholarship with which few readers are familiar.
On My Shelf: Life and Books with N. Gray Sutanto

Mar 18, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Ivan Mesa |N. Gray Sutanto |Blake Glosson |Steve Bateman

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked N. Gray Sutanto—assistant professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and author, editor, or translator of various books including Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction—about what’s on his bedside table, favorite fiction, favorite neo-Calvinism books, and much more. Advertise on TGCWhat’s on your nightstand right now?
‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’: The Cultural Mandate Is Work for Image-Bearers

Jan 2, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | N. Gray Sutanto

If religion should animate humanity’s work, the dominion that image-bearers have over creation isn’t merely kingly but priestly—the cultural mandate is at once a heavenly mandate, as that vertical relation with God determines how humans represent God on earth.
‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’: The Cultural Mandate Is Work for Image-Bearers

Dec 8, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | N. Gray Sutanto |Brett McCracken |Trevin Wax |Beth Claes

The responsibility of humanity to obey the “cultural mandate” is well recognized in evangelical discourse as a way of understanding the relationship between Christianity and culture. But perhaps less known are the textual origins of this discussion, in the tradition of neo-Calvinism, and the relationship of that mandate to the metaphysical makeup of human beings.
Cultural Mandate and the Image of God: Human Vocation under Creation, Fall, and Redemption

Dec 4, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | N. Gray Sutanto |Robert Menzies |David Christensen |Andreas J. Köstenberger

AbstractWhile the term “cultural mandate” is well-recognized as a way of understanding the relationship between Christianity, culture, and human vocation, its origins from within the Dutch neo-Calvinist tradition are less known. Drawing from this tradition, then, this essay sketches the logic of a neo-Calvinistic account of the cultural mandate through the states of creation, fall, and redemption.
The Necessity of Faith in Science

Sep 13, 2023 | theaquilareport.com | Cory C. Brock |James Eglinton |N. Gray Sutanto

Bavinck’s claim is that every person must honestly deal with the assumed faith necessary even in the sensory and knowledge processes themselves. Facing this reality leads directly to the necessary relationship between metaphysics and science. One needs faith as a habitus, Bavinck supposed, because it is the means of disciplining reason, lest it fall by way of the pride of life.
The Necessity of Faith in Science

Aug 31, 2023 | crossway.org | Cory C. Brock |James Eglinton |N. Gray Sutanto |Herman Bavinck

Faith in Pursuit of KnowledgeBecause faith aims toward knowledge—or, we might state differently, because faith seeks understanding—the emergence of Christian science is not merely a novel response to modernist positivism. Rather, it is a historic Christian practice, and a necessity of life in a fallen world. Without sin, Christian science would be wholly unnecessary.