Abraham Kuyper's Commentatio (1860): The Young Kuyper about Calvin, a Lasco, and the Church (2 vols.)
Title | Abraham Kuyper's Commentatio (1860): The Young Kuyper about Calvin, a Lasco, and the Church (2 vols.) PDF eBook |
Author | Jasper Vree |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 671 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047416317 |
In the Commentatio the 22-year-old Kuyper not only describes Calvin’s and a Lasco’s concepts of the Church, but also discusses them in the light of the Gospel. The Commentatio marks the beginning of modern a Lasco studies. The work also offers the initial impetus for the idea with which Kuyper would later exert great influence on Dutch nation and society: the Church as a free, democratic society of Christians, which manifests itself as a living organism in all spheres of life. The text, which has never been published before, is accompanied by historical and philological introductions, annotations, and comprehensive registers, and throws surprising new light on the origins of Kuyper’s ideas. Moreover, this source edition is important for the study of nineteenth-century Reformation research.
Abraham Kuyper's Commentatio (1860)
Title | Abraham Kuyper's Commentatio (1860) PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham Kuyper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Calvinism |
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Not only describes Calvin's and a Lasco's concepts of the Church, but also discusses them in the light of the Gospel. This work is accompanied by historical and philological introductions, annotations, and comprehensive registers, and throws light on the origins of Kuyper's ideas. It is useful the study of nineteenth-century Reformation research.
Abraham Kuyper
Title | Abraham Kuyper PDF eBook |
Author | James D. Bratt |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2013-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802869068 |
This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) - theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. James Bratt is the ideal scholar to tell the story of Kuyper's remarkable life and work. He expertly traces the origin and development of Kuyper's signature concepts - common grace, Christian worldview, sphere sovereignty, Christian engagement with contemporary culture - in the dynamic context of his life's story.
Abraham Kuyper
Title | Abraham Kuyper PDF eBook |
Author | Tjitze Kuipers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 789 |
Release | 2011-09-23 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 900421139X |
The Kuyper bibliography is the first overview of his publications, from his first one to the 2010 editions. After some introducing paragraphs the bibliography presents items in chronological order. Each item contains bibliographical data and information on contents and context.
Abraham Kuyper
Title | Abraham Kuyper PDF eBook |
Author | Jan de Bruijn |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2014-02-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802869661 |
A portraint of Kuyper's life and work in photographs and documents, presented chronologically.--Page ix.
Going Dutch in the Modern Age
Title | Going Dutch in the Modern Age PDF eBook |
Author | John Halsey Wood |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2013-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199920389 |
Abraham Kuyper is known as the energetic Dutch Protestant social activist and public theologian of the 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures, the Lectures on Calvinism. In fact, the church was the point from which Kuyper's concerns for society and public theology radiated. In his own words, ''The problem of the church is none other than the problem of Christianity itself.'' The loss of state support for the church, religious pluralism, rising nationalism, and the populist religious revivals sweeping Europe in the nineteenth century all eroded the church's traditional supports. Dutch Protestantism faced the unprecedented prospect of ''going Dutch''; from now on it would have to pay its own way. John Wood examines how Abraham Kuyper adapted the Dutch church to its modern social context through a new account of the nature of the church and its social position. The central concern of Kuyper's ecclesiology was to re-conceive the relationship between the inner aspects of the church—the faith and commitment of the members—and the external forms of the church, such as doctrinal confessions, sacraments, and the relationship of the church to the Dutch people and state. Kuyper's solution was to make the church less dependent on public entities such as nation and state and more dependent on private support, especially the good will of its members. This ecclesiology de-legitimated the national church and helped Kuyper justify his break with the church, but it had wider effects as well. It precipitated a change in his theology of baptism from a view of the instrumental efficacy of the sacrament to his later doctrine of presumptive regeneration wherein the external sacrament followed, rather than preceded and prepared for, the intenral work grace. This new ecclesiology also gave rise to his well-known public theology; once he achieved the private church he wanted, as the Netherlands' foremost public figure, he had to figure out how to make Christianity public again.
Trinity and Organism
Title | Trinity and Organism PDF eBook |
Author | James Eglinton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567632717 |
This book explores the organic motif found throughout the writings of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921). Noting that Bavinck uses this motif at key points in the most important loci of theology; Christology, general and special revelation, ecclesiology and so forth; it seems that one cannot read him carefully without particular attention to his motif of choice: the organic. By examining the sense in which Bavinck views all of reality as a beautiful balance of unity-in-diversity, James Eglinton draws the reader to Bavinck's constant concern for the doctrine of God as Trinity. If God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Bavinck argues, the creation must be more akin to an organism than a machine. Trinity and organism are thus closely linked concepts. Eglinton critiques and rejects the 'two Bavincks' (one orthodox and the other modern) hermeneutic so commonplace in discussions of Bavinck's theology. Instead, this book argues for a reunited Herman Bavinck as a figure committed to the participation of historic orthodox theology in the modern world.