This brief theological classic is organized as follows:
I. The Fall
1. Meaning of Genesis 3
2. Genesis 3 in the Old and the New Testaments
3. The Fall and the Theory of Evolution
4. The Character of the Fall
Death
1. Conception of Sin and Death
2. The Meaning of Death
3. Light in the Darkness
4. Spiritual Significance
5. Death in Non-Christian Religions and in Science
Born on December 13, 1854, in Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Holland, Herman Bavinck was the son of the Reverend Jan Bavinck, a leading figure in the secession from the State Church of the Netherlands in 1834. After theological study in Kampen, and at the University of Leiden, he graduated in 1880, and served as the minister of the congregation at Franeker, Friesland, for a year. According to his biographers, large crowds gathered to hear his outstanding exposition of the Scriptures.
In 1882, he was appointed a Professor of theology at Kampen, and taught there from 1883 until his appointment, in 1902, to the chair of systematic Theology in the Free University of Amsterdam, where he succeeded the great Abraham Kuyper, then recently appointed Prime Minister of the Netherlands. In this capacity -- an appointment he had twice before declined -- Bavinck served until his death in 1921.
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