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Book Reviews / Journal of Reformed Theology 4 (2010) 71-94 75 Henk van den Belt, The Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology. Truth and Trust , Brill, Leiden/Boston 2008, xiv + 386 pp., €89.00 / US$132.00 (ISBN 9789004163072). Van den Belt’s concern in this monograph on the self-convincing character of Holy Scrip- ture ( αυτοπιστια ) is hermeneutical, that is to say both historical and theological; to deter- mine what αυτοπιστια meant for the Reformed tradition and what its relevance is for church and theology today. To achieve the former he provides five chapters surveying the Reformed theological tradition—Calvin (2 & 3), Reformed orthodoxy (4), Benjamin Warfield (5), and Herman Bavinck (6)—followed by a concluding interpretive chapter. By his own admission, a personal background in the spiritual climate of Reformed churches where assurance of salvation was an important issue combined with an interest in evange- listic outreach in a postmodern setting played a significant role in the author choosing a deliberate hermeneutical approach over a strictly historical one. Though I am not a histo- rian, it seems to me that historical scholarship has not suffered because of this choice. The topic is carefully delimited, Van den Belt is
Journal of Reformed Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2010
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