The Church Between Temple and Mosque: A Study of the Relationship between Christianity and Other Religions

In this influential posthumous masterpiece, Dutch missiologist J. H. Bavinck guides readers in a candid, eloquent, and eye-opening exploration of religion, revelation, and the distinctness of the Christian faith in the context of global religions. Bavinck’s five ‘magnetic points’ (cosmic relationship, religious norm, the riddle of existence, our craving for salvation, and our awareness of a supreme power) are a transformative rubric for bringing Christ to the world, including those identifying as religious “nones.” Now for the first time in hardcover, with a luminary introduction by Daniel Strange, a new generation of Christians, pastors, and theologians can benefit from J. H. Bavinck’s must-read study of the contrast between Christianity and world religions.

Publisher: Westminster Seminary Press
Type: Hardback
ISBN: 9781955859059

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J.H. Bavinck (1895–1964) was an internationally admired pastor, missionary, theologian, and apologist. A nephew of famed dogmatician Herman Bavinck, he studied at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and then in Gießen and Erlangen, Germany before ministering in the Netherlands and in Indonesia. He went on to serve as professor at the Vrije Universiteit then at Kampen. He wrote widely on the theology of missions and elenctics.

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“J. H. Bavinck is a sublime but neglected thinker. Through his psychological insights, global focus, and rich biblical theology, his works offer the reader a uniquely Reformed perspective on Christianity (and the Western culture it produced) in relation to other faiths, and the cultures most deeply shaped by them. This book provides a sterling example of that. The Church Between Temple and Mosque is essential reading for Christians looking to understand other faiths, as well as the uniqueness of their own.” James Eglinton, Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology, University of Edinburgh