Christian Dogmatics: Van Der Kooi and Van Den Brink?

TylerRay · Nov 18, 2017

Is anyone familiar with the new Christian Dogmatics: An Introduction by Cornelius Van Der Kooi and Gijsbert Van Den Brink? They are apparently both professors at VU Amsterdam. Is this confessional Reformed theology?

Any information would be appreciated.

TheOldCourse · Nov 18, 2017

@bookslover has it, I believe. Perhaps he can give us some preliminary thoughts if he's gotten into it very much.

bookslover · Nov 18, 2017

I had a library copy a few months ago, and read around in it, without reading the whole thing.

I could be wrong (not having read it in its entirety) but my impression is that it's more liberal than we're used to around here. If this is the state of Dutch Reformed orthodoxy these days - well, what little I read was disappointing.

TylerRay · Nov 18, 2017

bookslover said:
I had a library copy a few months ago, and read around in it, without reading the whole thing.

I could be wrong (not having read it in its entirety) but my impression is that it's more liberal than we're used to around here. If this is the state of Dutch Reformed orthodoxy these days - well, what little I read was disappointing.

That's kind of what I expected. I think VU Amsterdam is kind of like Calvin Seminary over here (they are first cousins, so far as ecclesiastical ties are concerned).

I expect there would have been more of a buzz about it in the Reformed world if it had been a confessional work.

greenbaggins · Nov 19, 2017

The van Genderen/Velema volume is much more up our alley, I think.

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