“PHILOSOPHY AND REVELATION”
A conference in celebration of the centenary of
Herman Bavinck’s Stone Lectures
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
16th-18th April, 2009
Abraham Kuyper was succeeded as a professor of theology at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1880 by Herman Bavinck, author of the four volume Reformed Dogmatics. Ten years after Kuyper delivered his famous Stone Lectures on Calvinism, at Princeton Theological Seminary Bavinck was accorded the same distinction. He took ‘The Philosophy of Revelation’ as his theme and the outstanding lectures he gave have been in print ever since their first publication.
The purpose of this conference – which opened with a lecture by Professor Alvin Plantinga, winner of the Kuyper Prize for 2009 -- was to celebrate the centenary of Bavinck’s lectures by bringing theologians and philosophers into conversation on the very wide range of topics that Bavinck thought to be relevant to assessing the nature and status of revelation as a source of knowledge in a world increasingly dominated by empiricist epistemology. The topics he discusses include:
Theism, naturalism and humanism
Epistemological monism
The concept and significance of evolution
The anthropology of religion
Metaphysics in the philosophy of history
History, theology and Biblical interpretation
Religious experience
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, 16th April
Kuyper Prize Lecture
Alvin Plantinga, John O’ Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
"Religion and Science: Where the Conflict Really Lies"
Friday, 17th April
Gordon Graham, Chair of the Kuyper Center Committee
“The Contemporary Relevance of Bavinck’s Lectures”
Markus Bockmuehl, Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, University of Oxford
and James F Kay, Joe R. Engle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics, Princeton Theological Seminary
“History, Bible and Revelation”
William Abraham, Distinguished Professor, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
Bruce L. McCormack, Hodge Professor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
Dawn De Vries, John Newton Thomas Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary
“Revealed Truth in Contemporary Theology”
Saturday, 18th April
Paul K Moser, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University
“On Our Becoming Revelatory Evidence of God”
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