God and Humanity

Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology

This is the first scholarly monograph that systematically presents and applies Bavinck’s theological anthropology to current issues, discussing topics such as: the image of God, the body-soul relation, original sin, renewal and ethics, race, and consummation

This is the first book to apply Bavinck’s theological anthropology to contemporary theological issues. Sutanto provides a sustained close reading of Herman Bavinck’s contributions to theological anthropology and positions him in conversation with current and historical dialogues on embodiment, revelation, affect theory, phenomenology, the cognitive science of religion, ethics, race, covenant, and the beatific vision. Sutanto explores the holistic character of Bavinck’s vision of humanity, suggesting ways in which his theological anthropology cuts across several potential binaries in contemporary discourse, between affect and reason, body and soul, animality and religiosity, unity and diversity, and between a this-worldly or other-worldly eschatology.