{"id":744,"date":"2026-08-30T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/?p=744"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:05:53","slug":"doctrine-is-doxological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahaffynet.net\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Doctrine Is Doxological!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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(notes and quotes from reading Herman Bavinck\u2019s Reformed Dogmatics<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmong Reformed theologians, therefore, the following proposition returns again and again: \u2018the principle into which all theological dogmas are distilled is: God has said it.\u2019\u201d (Vol. 1, p. 30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTherefore, just as wood does not burn because it smokes but smoke nonetheless signals the presence of fire, so a truth confessed by the church is not a dogma because the church recognizes it but solely because it rests on God\u2019s authority.\u201d (Vol. 1, p. 31)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnd the essence of the Christian religion consists in the reality that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God and re-created by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a kingdom of God. Dogmatics shows how God who is all-sufficient in himself, nevertheless glorifies himself in his creation, which, even when it is torn apart by sin, is gathered up again in Christ (Eph. 1:10). It describes for us God, always God, from beginning to end \u2014 God in his being, God in his creation, God against sin, God in Christ, God breaking down all resistance through the Holy Spirit and guiding the whole of creation back to the objective he decreed for it: the glory of his name. Dogmatics, therefore, is not a dull and arid science. It is a theodicy, a doxology to all God\u2019s virtues and perfections, a hymn of adoration and thanksgiving, a \u2018glory to God in the highest\u2019 (Luke 2:14).\u201d (Vol. 1, p. 112)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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