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Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology" (T&T Clark, 2021)
N. Gray Sutanto offers a fresh reading of Herman Bavinck's
theological epistemology and argues that his Trinitarian and organic
worldview utilizes an extensive range of sources. Sutanto unfolds
Bavinck's understanding of what he considered to be the two most
important aspects of epistemology: the character of the sciences and the
correspondence between subjects and objects. Writing at the heels of
the European debates in the 19th and 20th centuries concerning
theology's place in the academy, and rooted in historic Christian
teachings, Sutanto demonstrates how Bavinck's argument remains fresh and
provocative. God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology (T&T Clark, 2021) explores
archival material and peripheral works translated for the first time in
English. The author re-reads several key concepts, ranging from