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On the Way to the Living God: A Cathartic Reading of Herman Bavinck and An Invitation to Overcome the Plausibility Crisis of Christianity

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VU Research PortalOn the Way to the Living Godde Wit, W.J.2011document versionPublisher's PDF, also known as Version of recordLink to publication in VU Research Portalcitation for published version (APA)de Wit, W. J. (2011). On the Way to the Living God: A Cathartic Reading of Herman Bavinck and An Invitation toOvercome the Plausibility Crisis of Christianity.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.            • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.            • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain            • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ?Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediatelyand investigate your claim.E-mail address:vuresearchportal.ub@vu.nlDownload date: 14. Sep. 2021On the Way tO the Living gOdA CAthArtiC reAding of hermAn BAvinCk And An invitAtion to overCome the PlAusiBilityCrisis of ChristiAnityP ost-Christian Amsterdam is a place where life seems to be good without god, where Jesus is seen as a figure of a distant past, and where only a few people still go to church. however, it is also a context from which a deeply reflected invitation springs to face and overcome the plausibility crisis of Christianity.By telling the story of the dutch  theologian herman Bavinck (1854–1921) and his struggle to remain standing as a Christian over against the modern worldview of his day, this study  offers interested readers all over the world a mirror in which to face their own struggle. moreover, in a world explained without god and marked by evil, it extends the invitation to adopt a binocular worldview and to live with open eyes on the way to the living god, even if this implies dying with Christ.VU UniVersity Press www.VUUitgeVerij.nlisBn 978 90 8659 586 0WiLLem J. de Wit is Lecturer  of BiBLicaL studies and  systematic theoLogy at the  evangeLicaL theoLogicaL seminary in cairo, egypt. earLier he worked as a junior research feLLow for the internationaL reformed  theoLogicaL institute at vu university amsterdam,  the netherLands. WiLLem J. de Wit  On the Way tO the Living gOdOn the Way tO the Living gOdWillem J. de Wit VU University Press

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On the Way to the Living God:A Cathartic Reading of Herman Bavinck and An Invitation to Overcome the Plausibility Crisis of Christianity

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On the Way tO 
the Living gOd
A CAthArtiC reAding of 
hermAn BAvinCk And An 
invitAtion to overCome 
the PlAusiBility
Crisis of ChristiAnity
P ost-Christian Amsterdam is a place where life seems to be good without god, where Jesus is seen 
as a figure of a distant past, and where 
only a few people still go to church. 
however, it is also a context from which 
a deeply reflected invitation springs to 
face and overcome the plausibility crisis 
of Christianity.
By telling the story of the dutch  
theologian herman Bavinck (1854–1921) 
and his struggle to remain standing as 
a Christian over against the modern 
worldview of his day, this study  offers 
interested readers all over the world a 
mirror in which to face their own struggle. 
moreover, in a world explained without 
god and marked by evil, it extends the 
invitation to adopt a binocular worldview 
and to live with open eyes on the way to 
the living god, even if this implies dying 
with Christ.
VU UniVersity Press www.VUUitgeVerij.nl
isBn 978 90 8659 586 0
WiLLem J. de Wit is Lecturer  
of BiBLicaL studies and  
systematic theoLogy at the  
evangeLicaL theoLogicaL 
seminary in cairo, egypt. 
earLier he worked as a 
junior research feLLow for 
the internationaL reformed  
theoLogicaL institute at 
vu university amsterdam,  
the netherLands. 
W
iLLem
 J. de W
it  On
 the W
ay tO the Livin
g gOd
On the Way tO 
the Living gOd
Willem J. de Wit 
VU University Press


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