The Last Things: Hope for This World and the Next

by Herman Bavinck, John Vriend (Translator), John Bolt (Editor)

Written a century ago, Bavinck's stately theology of "the last things"--from death to the parousia--offers sound exegetical guidance.

Genres: Theology

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) succeeded Abraham Kuyper as professor of systematic theology at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1902.

His nephew was Johan Herman Bavinck.

Reviews

[Oliver Brauning · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sound book. Bavinck successfully harmonizes all the relevant NT passages, helpfully distinguishing which refer to the intermediate state and which to the great day of the Lord. In addition to discussing eschatology and death, Bavinck also takes account of corresponding occult phenomena. While there's some passages I am hesitant to agree with—for example, Bavinck's opinion that there will be one last greatest assault on God's kingdom by the forces of Satan before the Son returns—each treatment is reasonably argued. What makes Bavinck immeasurably greater than his obnoxious Neocalvinist disciples today is his wide reading; his charity toward his opponents; and his modesty before medieval and ancient theologians and toward the hidden things of God.