John Bolt (theologian)

John Bolt is an American-Dutch Reformed theologian. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[1] He is the author and editor of several books. He translated Herman Bavinck's Gereformeerde Dogmatiek into English as Reformed Dogmatics.[2] Bavinck influenced him into theological method.[3]

Education

John Bolt was born in 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.[4] 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 (2013)
  • Bavinck on the Christian Life: Following Jesus in Faithful Service (2015)
  • Orthodoxy and orthopraxis in the Reformed community today (ed., Christian Reformed perspectives, 1985)[5]
  • 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 Mind
  • How Christianity Transformed Our Understanding of History
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See also

References
  1. John Bolt, mellenpress
  2. Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 4 Volumes
  3. “WHAT HERMAN BAVINCK TAUGHT ME” — BY JOHN BOLT
  4. bolt Interviewee
  5. Orthodoxy and orthopraxis in the Reformed community today (Christian Reformed perspectives)


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