Ninth Herman Bavinck Lecture

HERMAN BAVINCK LECTURE SERIES

In the Herman Bavinck Lecture series scholars are invited who share Bavinck’s love for the Reformed tradition, are aware of the appeal of his vision of grace as a transforming force in both personal life and in society and culture, and in their scholarly endeavour reflect his deep and Catholic vision of the Christian faith. They are asked to address in their lecture key questions regarding the contribution which Reformed theology can make to church and society in a postmodern world.

Dr. Paul Wells, Emeritus professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence, France

“Is there a future for infant baptism? A Reformed Response to Covenantal Baptist Critique”

Paul Wells (D.Th, D.Lit) is Emeritus professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence, where he was also Academic dean from 2007-2012. He edited the journals La Revue réformée for over thirty years and Unio cum Christo from 2015-2023 and was President of the Francophone Association of Evangelical Theologians for several years. Wells was one of the translators/editors of a new version in modern French of Calvin’s Institutes in 2009. He recently published a two volume systematic theology under the title: La Grâce (étonnante) de Dieu. Une théologie biblique et systématique de l’alliance (Ed. Excelsis).

He and his wife Alison live in Liverpool and have children and grandchildren in England, Spain and Texas. They are members of Trinity International Presbyterian Church, Chester.

Contact information about the Bavinck Lecture: international@tuu.nl.

For more information on the previous Bavinck lecture, click here.