Abraham Kuyper : a centennial reader /
Abraham Kuyper : a centennial reader / [print]
edited by James D. Bratt.
- Carlisle : Paternoster Press, (c)1998. Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans ; (c)1998.
- xiv, 498 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
BEGINNINGS -- Uniformity: The curse of modern life (1869) -- Confidentially (1873) CHURCH AND THEOLOGY -- Conservatism and orthodoxy: False and true preservation (1870) -- Modernism: A Fata Morgana in the Christian domain (1871) -- "It shall not be so among you" (1886) -- Perfectionism (1879) -- Common grace (1902-4) CULTURE AND EDUCATION -- The blurring of the boundaries (1892): pantheism as the hallmark of nineteenth-century European culture -- Evolution (1899): the deleterious philosophy and consequences of evolutionary naturalism -- Common grace in science (1904): constructive statement on epistemology -- Sphere sovereignty (1880): inaugural address at the Free University: the summa of Kuyper's thought. POLITICS AND SOCIETY -- Maranatha (1891) -- Manual labor (1889) -- Our instinctive life (1908) -- Calvinism: Source and stronghold of our constitutional liberties (1874) -- The South African crisis (1900)
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is one of the most remarkable men in the history of Reformed Christianity. He was eminent in Dutch public life for half a century and left a deep imprint on Dutch immigrant communities in the United States, Canada, and South Africa. A theologian, politician, journalist, university founder, and seminal thinker in the history of modern Calvinism, Kuyper offered an engaging critique of the nineteenth century that still has much to say at the end of the twentieth. This anthology, published in the centennial year of Kuyper's famous Stone Lectures, gathers sixteen key writings by Kuyper never before available in English. Included in this volume are Kuyper's definitive statements on politics, education, culture, and the religious currents and social problems of his time. Also included are Kuyper's own conversion narrative, his critiques of Modernism and of Holiness theology, his proposals on common grace and Calvinist politics, his reflections on a culture in thrall to pantheism and evolution, and his classic address on "sphere sovereignty." Freshly translated and rendered in a clear, accessible style, these writings clearly display Kuyper's wide-ranging and creative Christian mind. Editor James Bratt provides helpful explanatory notes and an introduction to each piece. Photographs, cartoons, and short excerpts from some of Kuyper's better-known works also make this an attractive volume that will stand as the premier Kuyper reader for years to come. - Publisher.
9780802843210
97045850
GB9903220 bnb
Calvinism.
Christian doctrine: general.
Christian life.
BX9422.A159.A273 1998 BX9422
BEGINNINGS -- Uniformity: The curse of modern life (1869) -- Confidentially (1873) CHURCH AND THEOLOGY -- Conservatism and orthodoxy: False and true preservation (1870) -- Modernism: A Fata Morgana in the Christian domain (1871) -- "It shall not be so among you" (1886) -- Perfectionism (1879) -- Common grace (1902-4) CULTURE AND EDUCATION -- The blurring of the boundaries (1892): pantheism as the hallmark of nineteenth-century European culture -- Evolution (1899): the deleterious philosophy and consequences of evolutionary naturalism -- Common grace in science (1904): constructive statement on epistemology -- Sphere sovereignty (1880): inaugural address at the Free University: the summa of Kuyper's thought. POLITICS AND SOCIETY -- Maranatha (1891) -- Manual labor (1889) -- Our instinctive life (1908) -- Calvinism: Source and stronghold of our constitutional liberties (1874) -- The South African crisis (1900)
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is one of the most remarkable men in the history of Reformed Christianity. He was eminent in Dutch public life for half a century and left a deep imprint on Dutch immigrant communities in the United States, Canada, and South Africa. A theologian, politician, journalist, university founder, and seminal thinker in the history of modern Calvinism, Kuyper offered an engaging critique of the nineteenth century that still has much to say at the end of the twentieth. This anthology, published in the centennial year of Kuyper's famous Stone Lectures, gathers sixteen key writings by Kuyper never before available in English. Included in this volume are Kuyper's definitive statements on politics, education, culture, and the religious currents and social problems of his time. Also included are Kuyper's own conversion narrative, his critiques of Modernism and of Holiness theology, his proposals on common grace and Calvinist politics, his reflections on a culture in thrall to pantheism and evolution, and his classic address on "sphere sovereignty." Freshly translated and rendered in a clear, accessible style, these writings clearly display Kuyper's wide-ranging and creative Christian mind. Editor James Bratt provides helpful explanatory notes and an introduction to each piece. Photographs, cartoons, and short excerpts from some of Kuyper's better-known works also make this an attractive volume that will stand as the premier Kuyper reader for years to come. - Publisher.
9780802843210
97045850
GB9903220 bnb
Calvinism.
Christian doctrine: general.
Christian life.
BX9422.A159.A273 1998 BX9422