The Neo-Calvinist Bonhoeffer: Klaas Schilder

Grace in Common

An episode on the occasion of the publication of the Klaas Schilder Reader. A Neo-Calvinist Bonhoeffer, a "loyal opposition in the Neo-Calvinist tradition", "a theology for the trenches of life". Who was this second generation neo-Calvinist? How did he differ from Kuyper and Bavinck? Join us in a conversation about possible weaknesses in the Neo-Calvinist tradition on sphere sovereignty, common grace, the church as institution etc.

• George Harinck, Marinus de Jong and Richard Mouw (eds.), The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings (Lexham Academic, 2022) https://lexhampress.com/product/213957/the-klaas-schilder-reader-the-essential-theological-writings
• Marinus de Jong, “The Church is the Means, the World is the End: The Development of Klaas Schilder’s thought on the Church and the World (PhD Thesis, Kampen Theological University, 2019) https://www.tukampen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/proefschrift-Marinus-de-Jong-final-3.pdf

Our essential Neo-calvinist reading list:

Primary Sources

• Herman Bavinck, “The Catholicity of Christendom and Church” in: Calvin Theological Journal 27 (1992) https://sources.neocalvinism.org/.full_pdfs/bavinck_1992_catholicity.pdf
• Herman Bavinck, “Modernity and Orthodoxy” in The Bavinck Review 7 (2016) https://sources.neocalvinism.org/.full_pdfs/bavinck_2016_modernism.pdf also in Bruce Pass (ed.), On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations (Brill)
• Bavinck, “The Kingdom of God, The Highest Good” In: The Bavinck Review 2 (2011) https://sources.neocalvinism.org/.full_pdfs/bavinck_2011_kingdom.pdf
• Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (1898) https://sources.neocalvinism.org/.full_pdfs/kuyper/LecturesOnCalvinism.pdf
• Abraham Kuyper, ”Conservatism and orthodoxy: False and True Preservation” in James Bratt (ed.), Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Eerdmans, 1998)
• Abraham Kuyper, ”Uniformity and the Curse of Modern Life” in James Bratt (ed.), Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Eerdmans, 1998)

Secondary Sources

• Jessica Joustra and Robert Joustra (eds.), Calvinism for a Secular Age (IVP, 2022) https://www.ivpress.com/calvinism-for-a-secular-age
• James Eglinton, Herman Bavinck: A Critical Biography (Baker Academic, 2020) http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/bavinck/397260
• James Bratt, Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat (Eerdmans, 2013) https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6906/abraham-kuyper.aspx
• Cory Brock and Nathanial Sutanto, Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction (Lexham, forthcoming) https://lexhampress.com/product/224276/neo-calvinism-a-theological-introduction