I am still plowing through Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.  If you enjoy theology and philosophy, this book is for you.  While learning about the Covenanters and the more general foundations for their thinking on a Christian’s role in the world around him, I somehow [...]

I have been enjoying Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society recently.  In the first essay, Philosophy Of Religion (Faith), Bavinck addresses the philosophies of Kant and Rousseau, and the effects of the mystical/rational dichotomy found therein:
However, all these orientations, the ethical and mystical as well as the speculative, suffer from a significant one-sidedness.  [...]