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Reformed Social Ethics Perspectives on Society, Culture, State, Church, and the Kingdom of God Herman Bavinck; John Bolt, editor In the process of translating Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics , John Bolt and his editorial colleagues discovered that the so- cial ethics portion was unfinished. The first section will now be published as Reformed Ethics , vol. 3. The other five sections were outlined by Bavinck but not completed. Following Bavinck’s outline, John Bolt has reconstructed those last five sections on the basis of his extensive knowledge of Bavinck’s work, culling Bavinck’s other writings, in both Dutch and English, to summarize his teachings. This companion to Reformed Ethics offers readers Bavinck’s main convictions and perspectives on critical topics of social ethics: society, art, scholarship, education, the state, the church, humanity, and the kingdom of God. Reformed Social Ethics completes the Reformed Ethics project and provides readers with a fuller picture of Bavinck’s ethics. It is also available packaged with Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics in a specially priced four-volume set. “In the works brought together as Reformed Social Ethics , we find an example often missing in our day: a Christian ethicist think- ing carefully about complex issues in the light of Scripture and tradition rather than in the blue light of a smartphone.” —James Eglinton, New College, University of Edinburgh “Our debt of gratitude to John Bolt for reintroducing Bavinck to the Anglophone world continues to grow with this companion to the Reformed Ethics . Here, Bavinck’s writings on matters of deep moral interest are not only translated for the first time but, where they are incomplete, Bolt provides his own learned judgments to am- plify or develop arguments in keeping with the spirit of Bavinck’s thought. Readers will find here not only matters of historical inter - est but also an exemplary model for a Reformed engagement with perennial social issues.” —N. Gray Sutanto, Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington DC
MARCH 2025 • 240 pp. • cloth • $34.99 • 9781540968128
ALSO AVAILABLE REFORMED ETHICS 4-VOLUME SET April 2025 • 1,840 pp. • cloth • $199.99 • 9781540968807
Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics is now complete with the publication of Reformed Ethics , vol. 3, and the supplementary volume Reformed Social Ethics . The four-volume set includes:
• Reformed Ethics , vol. 1: Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity
• Reformed Ethics , vol. 2: The Duties of the Christian Life
• Reformed Ethics , vol. 3: Christian Life in Society
• Reformed Social Ethics: Perspectives on Society, Culture, State, Church, and the Kingdom of God
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