Appreciative and Faithful?

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" Appreciative and Faithful? "
Ximian Xu

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1073308
Doc. No	:	LA116937
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01301009‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ximian Xu
Title & Author	:	Appreciative and Faithful? [Article]\ Ximian Xu
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Reformed Theology
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/1
Page No	:	26–46
Abstract	:	This article is intended to assess Karl Barth’s appreciative use of Herman Bavinck’s view of God’s incomprehensibility in Church Dogmatics II/1. The main argument is that despite Barth’s appreciative gesture, Barth in fact offers an unfaithful or mistaken reading of Bavinck’s view. Whereas Bavinck makes God’s knowability the presupposition of the divine incomprehensibility, Barth renders the veracious knowledge of God predicated upon God’s incomprehensibility, which is in turn grounded in God’s hiddenness. In any event, Barth’s appreciative gesture toward Bavinck should not cover up their divergent lines of reasoning in demonstrating the doctrine of God’s incomprehensibility. This article is intended to assess Karl Barth’s appreciative use of Herman Bavinck’s view of God’s incomprehensibility in Church Dogmatics II/1. The main argument is that despite Barth’s appreciative gesture, Barth in fact offers an unfaithful or mistaken reading of Bavinck’s view. Whereas Bavinck makes God’s knowability the presupposition of the divine incomprehensibility, Barth renders the veracious knowledge of God predicated upon God’s incomprehensibility, which is in turn grounded in God’s hiddenness. In any event, Barth’s appreciative gesture toward Bavinck should not cover up their divergent lines of reasoning in demonstrating the doctrine of God’s incomprehensibility.
Descriptor	:	God’s hiddenness
Descriptor	:	God’s incomprehensibility
Descriptor	:	God’s knowability
Descriptor	:	Herman Bavinck
Descriptor	:	Karl Barth
Descriptor	:	revelation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01301009‬