Prepare for the BST Herman Bavinck conference by reading Cory Brock (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh)
Orthodox yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher (Lexham, 2020).
In Orthodox yet Modern, Cory C. Brock argues that Bavinck acts as a bridge between orthodox and modern views, insofar as he subsumes the philosophical-theological questions and concepts of theological modernity under the conditions of his orthodox, confessional tradition. By exploring the relation between Bavinck and Schleiermacher, Orthodox yet Modern presents Herman Bavinck as a theologian eager to engage the contemporary world, rooted in the catholic and Reformed tradition, absorbing the best of modernity while rejecting its excesses. Bavinck represents a theologian who is at once orthodox, yet modern.
Brock is an assistant minister at First Presbyterian Church Jackson and lecturer in Christian Thought at Belhaven University.
You can read his thesis at
https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/31240/Brock2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y