John Bolt is an American-Dutch
Reformed
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theologian
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...
. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at
Calvin Theological Seminary
Calvin Theological Seminary is a private Christian Reformed Church seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is closely tied to Calvin University, though each institution has its own board.
History
The seminary was founded in 1876 with the purpos ...
in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author and editor of several books. He edited
Herman Bavinck's ''Gereformeerde Dogmatiek'' into English as ''Reformed Dogmatics''. Bavinck influenced him into theological method.
Education
John Bolt was born in 1947 in Grootegast, the Netherlands; immigrated to Canada at the age of three; and grew up in Ladner, a suburb south of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
John Bolt did his undergraduate work at Simon Fraser University and Calvin College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970. From Calvin Theological Seminary, he achieved a bachelor's degree in Theology in 1973 and a Master of Theology Degree in 1977. He completed his Ph.D. in Theology at University of St. Michael's College, in Toronto, in 1982.
Works
* Economic Shalom (201
* Bavinck on the Christian Life: Following Jesus in Faithful Service (201
* Orthodoxy and orthopraxis in the Reformed community today (ed., Christian Reformed perspectives, 1985)
Orthodoxy and orthopraxis in the Reformed community today (Christian Reformed perspectives)
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* Christian and Reformed Today
* Five Studies in the Thought of Herman Bavinck (2012)
* A Theological Analysis of Herman Bavinck's Two Essays on the Imitatio Christi: Between Pietism and Modernism (2013)
* The Christian Story and the Christian School
* Christian and Reformed Today
* The Christian Story and the Christian School
* Herman Bavinck: The Man and the Min
* How Christianity Transformed Our Understanding of Histor
See also
* Herman Bavinck
Herman Bavinck (13 December 1854 – 29 July 1921) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and churchman. He was a significant scholar in the Calvinist tradition, alongside Abraham Kuyper and B. B. Warfield.
Biography Background
Bavinck was bor ...
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Living people
American Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Calvin University alumni
Calvin Theological Seminary alumni
University of St. Michael's College alumni
20th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
21st-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Calvin Theological Seminary faculty
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