Herman Bavinck on the essence of the Christian religion

Over the past few years, I've been making my way slowly but surely through the first volume - "Prolegomena" - of Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics. The work is not exactly light reading, but it pays great dividends on time and effort spent grappling with it. Bavinck was obviously an extraordinary thinker (his familiarity with the philosophical and theological literature up to his time is just mind-boggling), and reading him, even if not understanding everything, cannot but enlarge one's own thoughts about the things of God.

Here is one quote that I like, that well expresses Bavinck's comprehensive understanding of the Christian faith:

"And the essence of the Christian religion consists in the reality that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God and re-created by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a kingdom of God" (pg. 112).

Or in other words, according to the Editor's Introduction, the "fundamental theme that shapes Bavinck's entire theology is the trinitarian idea that grace restores nature" (pg. 18). Much to think about.