Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) succeeded Abraham Kuyper as professor of systematic theology at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1902. John Bolt (PhD, University of St. Michael's College) is professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the editor of Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics.

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• ContentsIntroduction to Herman Bavinck's Reformed Ethics by Dirk van Keulen and John BoltIntroduction§1 Historical Overview of Christian Ethics§2 Terminology§3 Division and Organization of Ethic§4 Foundation and Method of EthicsBook I: Humanity before Conversion1. Essential Human Nature§5 Human Beings, Created in God's Image§6 The Content of Human Nature§7 Human Relationships2. Humanity under the Power of Sin§8 The Devastation of the Image of God in Humanity§9 The Organizing Principle and Classification of Sins3. The Self against the Neighbor and God§10 Sins of Egoism in the Narrow Sense§11 Sins against the Neighbor§12 Sins against God4. The Fallen Image of God§13 The Image of God in Fallen Human Beings5. Human Conscience§14 The Conscience6. The Sinner and the Law§15 The Law§16 Natural MoralityBook II: Converted Humanity7. Life in the Spirit§17 The Nature of the Spiritual Life§18 The Origin of the Spiritual Life§19 The First and Basic Activity of the Spiritual Life8. Life in the Spirit in the Church's History§20 Mysticism, Pietism, and Methodism9. The Shape and Maturation of the Christian Life§21 The Shape of the Christian Life: The Imitation of Christ§22 The Growth of the Spiritual Life10. Persevering in the Christian Life§23 Security and Sealing11. Pathologies of the Christian Life§24 Diseases of the Spiritual Life and Their Roots12. Restoration and Consummation of the Christian Life§25 Means of Restoration§26 Consummation of the Spiritual Life; Meditation on DeathIndexes