John Bolt (theologian)
John Bolt is an American-Dutch Reformed theologian. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[1] He is the author and editor of several books. He edited Herman Bavinck's Gereformeerde Dogmatiek into English as Reformed Dogmatics.[2] Bavinck influenced him into theological method.[3]
Education
[edit]John Bolt was born in 1947 in Grootegast, the Netherlands; immigrated to Canada at the age of three; and grew up in Ladner, a suburb south of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[4] John Bolt did his undergraduate work at Simon Fraser University and Calvin College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970. From Calvin Theological Seminary, he achieved a bachelor's degree in Theology in 1973 and a Master of Theology Degree in 1977. He completed his Ph.D. in Theology at University of St. Michael's College, in Toronto, in 1982.
Works
[edit]- Economic Shalom (2013)[1]
- Bavinck on the Christian Life: Following Jesus in Faithful Service (2015)[2]
- Orthodoxy and orthopraxis in the Reformed community today (ed., Christian Reformed perspectives, 1985)[5]
- Christian and Reformed Today
- Five Studies in the Thought of Herman Bavinck (2012)
- A Theological Analysis of Herman Bavinck's Two Essays on the Imitatio Christi: Between Pietism and Modernism (2013)
- The Christian Story and the Christian School
- Christian and Reformed Today
- The Christian Story and the Christian School
- Herman Bavinck: The Man and the Mind [3]
- How Christianity Transformed Our Understanding of History [4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ John Bolt, mellenpress
- ^ Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 4 Volumes
- ^ “WHAT HERMAN BAVINCK TAUGHT ME” — BY JOHN BOLT
- ^ bolt Interviewee
- ^ "Orthodoxy and orthopraxis in the Reformed community today (Christian Reformed perspectives)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
External links
[edit]- "What is Neocalvinism".
- "Last lecture at the Calvin Theological Seminary". Facebook.
- "The Bavinck Institute: Herman Bavinck Translation Ethics, and Herman Bavinck and the Puritans". YouTube.
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