Herman Bavinck

The Reverend Herman Bavinck
Bavinck c. 1913
Born	(1854-12-13)13 December 1854 Hoogeveen, Netherlands
Died	29 July 1921(1921-07-29) (aged 66) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Political party	Anti-Revolutionary Party
Spouse	Johanna A. Schippers (m. 1891)


Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christian (Continental Reformed)
Church	Christian Reformed Church Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
Ordained	c. 1881




Academic background
Alma mater	Kampen Theological Seminary Leiden University
Thesis	A Succinct Demonstration of the Influence of Schleiermacher upon the Exposition of Holy Scripture
Doctoral advisor	Jan Hendrik Scholten
Influences	Thomas Aquinas Augustine of Hippo Abraham Kuyper Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Friedrich Schleiermacher John Calvin
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Dogmatic theology
School or tradition	Neo-Calvinism
Institutions	Kampen Theological Seminary Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Notable works	Reformed Dogmatics (1895–1901)
Influenced	Louis Berkhof John Bolt Herman Hoeksema Tim Keller Abraham Kuyper Hendrik G. Stoker Cornelius Van Til D. H. Th. Vollenhoven

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Herman Bavinck (13 December 1854 – 29 July 1921) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and churchman. He was a significant scholar in the Calvinist tradition, alongside Abraham Kuyper, B. B. Warfield, and Geerhardus Vos.