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@article{ART002467984},
author={Kyu Bo Kim},
title={Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education},
journal={Journal of Counseling and Gospel },
issn={1739-0745},
year={2019},
volume={27},
number={1},
pages={81-120},
doi={10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyu Bo Kim
TI - Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education
JO - Journal of Counseling and Gospel
PY - 2019
VL - 27
IS - 1
PB - Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
SP - 81
EP - 120
SN - 1739-0745
AB - This paper argues that Herman Bavinck's understanding of the covenant has practical implications for Family Life Education. For Bavinck, the family is a covenantal community driven by God. According to Bavinck, the covenant is originated by the triune God from the eternity. Through Christ’s merit, his people eternally enter the covenantal relationship with God. Bavinck stresses the following characteristics of the covenant. First, the covenant has its origin only in God’s grace. Second, the covenant highlights God's sovereignty over his people. Third, the covenant in essence is unilateral, but it turns out bilaterally. Fourth, the covenant embraces the organic unity of his creation. These aspects of the covenant contain practical values on Family Life Education. First, grace is the origin of the family. Second, the owner of the family is God. Third, family members voluntarily obey one another in love, and thereby they together participate in the process of sanctification, which includes forgiveness and mortification of sin. Fourth, the family is a channel through which its members experience the kingdom of God and carry its grace and value into a broader society. These implications will be able to provide practical theological foundations for the development of a biblical Family Life Education Program.
KW - Herman Bavinck;the Covenant;Family;Family ministry;a Biblical family life education
DO - 10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81
ER -

Kyu Bo Kim. (2019). Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education. Journal of Counseling and Gospel , 27(1), 81-120.

Kyu Bo Kim. 2019, "Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education", Journal of Counseling and Gospel , vol.27, no.1 pp.81-120. Available from: doi:10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81

Kyu Bo Kim "Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education" Journal of Counseling and Gospel 27.1 pp.81-120 (2019) : 81.

Kyu Bo Kim. Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education. 2019; 27(1), 81-120. Available from: doi:10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81

Kyu Bo Kim. "Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education" Journal of Counseling and Gospel 27, no.1 (2019) : 81-120.doi: 10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81

Kyu Bo Kim. Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education. Journal of Counseling and Gospel , 27(1), 81-120. doi: 10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81

Kyu Bo Kim. Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education. Journal of Counseling and Gospel . 2019; 27(1) 81-120. doi: 10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81

Kyu Bo Kim. Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education. 2019; 27(1), 81-120. Available from: doi:10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81

Kyu Bo Kim. "Herman Bavinck's Understanding of the Covenant and Its Practical Implications for a Biblical Family Life Education" Journal of Counseling and Gospel 27, no.1 (2019) : 81-120.doi: 10.17841/jocag.2019.27.1.81