Jul 13, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
In this episode, James and Gray discuss the new book *The Essential Herman Bavinck: A Reader and Commentary*. Bavinck, Herman. *The Essential Herman Bavinck: A Reader and Commentary*. Edited by Gayle…
Gray SutantoHost
Cory BrockHostI would argue even that this, the, the content on, um, women in contemporary society, which is the latest text that you've included-
... is actually also profoundly rooted in the idea of archetypal theology as the pursuit of wisdom and, and prudential judgments for the, the current good of the elect.
So that exercise of Christian reasoning fits for Bavinck within an archetypal, ectypal scheme.
Um, and actually I, I think what I find really, um, good to remember in, in seeing the way that this reader progresses from what he does with the Leiden Synopsis and, and, you know, trying to deal with reformed scholasticism at the source, and then taking us through right up until 1918 when he's trying to think through quite difficult debates in his own, um, his own period post-World War II, uh, around women's voting rights.
I think that throughout the way that you and Corey have described neo-Calvinism as a critical reception of reformed or- orthodoxy contextualized for late modernity, that's, that's played out throughout all of these texts.
And it, it sort of makes me feel a bit frustrated with like the, that older analysis of Bavinck, let's say, that he rejects reformed scholasticism wholesale later in his life.
... uh, and, and even at a superficial level it's, it's kind of underwhelming because you can still find him talking about like, for example, like archetype, ectype in, in later texts explicitly, but the, but the architecture of his thinking is still just this contextual, um, appropriation of reformed scholasticism.
I would argue even that this, the, the content on, um, women in contemporary society, which is the latest text that you've included-
... is actually also profoundly rooted in the idea of archetypal theology as the pursuit of wisdom and, and prudential judgments for the, the current good of the elect.
So that exercise of Christian reasoning fits for Bavinck within an archetypal, ectypal scheme.
Um, and actually I, I think what I find really, um, good to remember in, in seeing the way that this reader progresses from what he does with the Leiden Synopsis and, and, you know, trying to deal with reformed scholasticism at the source, and then taking us through right up until 1918 when he's trying to think through quite difficult debates in his own, um, his own period post-World War II, uh, around women's voting rights.
I think that throughout the way that you and Corey have described neo-Calvinism as a critical reception of reformed or- orthodoxy contextualized for late modernity, that's, that's played out throughout all of these texts.
And it, it sort of makes me feel a bit frustrated with like the, that older analysis of Bavinck, let's say, that he rejects reformed scholasticism wholesale later in his life.
... uh, and, and even at a superficial level it's, it's kind of underwhelming because you can still find him talking about like, for example, like archetype, ectype in, in later texts explicitly, but the, but the architecture of his thinking is still just this contextual, um, appropriation of reformed scholasticism.
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