Engaging the World with Abraham Kuyper

Engaging the World with Abraham Kuyper
Author: Michael R. Wagenman
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683592433

Christ declares "Mine!" over every square inch of creation. In his well--known quote, Abraham Kuyper expressed the defining characteristic of his public theology: Jesus' sovereignty extends over all things. He believed Christians should engage the whole world in all of its various spheres. But what does that comprehensive calling practically look like for us today? In Engaging the World with Abraham Kuyper, Michael Wagenman explores the practical application of Kuyper's public theology. Using Kuyper's own life as an example, he shows us how the gospel can permeate all aspects of society: our identity, public discourse, education, the church, politics. Ultimately, this means engaging the world with perceptive truth that's mindful of the dynamics at work in our time and place.

Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper
Author: Richard J. Mouw
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2011-06-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802866034

Richard Mouw was first drawn to Abraham Kuyper s writings about public life in the turbulent 1960s. As he struggled to find the right Christian stance toward big social issues such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Mouw discovered Kuyper s Lectures on Calvinism and, with it, a robust vision of active Christian involvement in public life that has guided him ever since. In this short and personal introduction Mouw sets forth Kuyper s main ideas on Christian cultural discipleship, including his views on sphere sovereignty, the antithesis, common grace, and more. Mouw looks at ways to update and, in some places, even correct Kuyper s thought as he applies it to such twenty-first-century issues as religious and cultural pluralism, technology, and the challenge of Islam.

Wisdom and Wonder

Wisdom and Wonder
Author: Abraham Kuyper
Publisher: Russell Media
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1937498913

Common Grace

Common Grace
Author: Abraham Kuyper
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577996941

In Common Grace Abraham Kuyper presents a constructive public theology of cultural engagement rooted in the humanity Christians share with the rest of the world. He addresses a gap in the development of Reformed teaching on divine grace, and he articulates a Reformed understanding of God's gifts that are common to all people after the fall into sin. This first volume contains Kuyper's demonstration of common grace in its origin and operation. This new translation of Common Grace, created in partnership with the Kuyper Translation Society and the Acton Institute, is part of a major series of new translations of Kuyper's most important writings. The Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology marks a historic moment in Kuyper studies, aimed at deepening and enriching the church's development of public theology.

Common Grace (Volume 3)

Common Grace (Volume 3)
Author: Abraham Kuyper
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577996968

God's Gifts for a Fallen World Common Grace is often considered Abraham Kuyper's crowning work, an exploration of how God expresses grace even to the unsaved. Kuyper firmly believed that though many people in the world will remain unconverted, God's grace is still shown to the world as a whole. In this third and final volume of Common Grace, Kuyper brings his argument to its logical completion by turning to practical implications. With detailed explorations on matters of church and state, family, upbringing, and society, Kuyper provides practical guidance for all who desire to flourish within the created order, a world in which God's grace is generously given to all.

Engaging God's World

Engaging God's World
Author: Cornelius Plantinga
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802839819

An inspiring guide for developing the Christian mind extols the crucial roll of Christian higher education in the intellectual and spiritual formation of believers.

Our Program

Our Program
Author: Abraham Kuyper
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2015-11-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577996828

In Our Program, Abraham Kuyper presents a Christian alternative to the secular politics of his day. At that time, the church and state were closely tied, with one usually controlling the other. But Kuyper's political framework showed how the church and state could engage with each other while remaining separate. His insights, though specific to his time and place, remain highly relevant to Christians involved in the political sphere today. This new translation of Our Program, created in partnership with the Kuyper Translation Society and the Acton Institute, is part of a major series of new translations of Kuyper's most important writings. The Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology marks a historic moment in Kuyper studies, aimed at deepening and enriching the church's development of public theology.

God's Renaissance Man

God's Renaissance Man
Author: James Edward McGoldrick
Publisher: EP BOOKS
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780852344460

A journalist, a theologian, a pastor, a prime minister, few people can boast of having such dimensions to their careers! Yet such was the remarkable life of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), who played a major role in helping modern Christians to develop a consistently biblical and practical world-view, not only in his native country of the Netherlands, but throughout much of the world. All of life belongs to God. In Kuypers own words, No single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole doman of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: Mine

Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper
Author: James D. Bratt
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total 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.

On Islam

On Islam
Author: Abraham Kuyper
Publisher: Abraham Kuyper Collected Works
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781577996743

At the beginning of the twentieth century, famed theologian Abraham Kuyper toured the Mediterranean world and encountered Islam for the first time. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, On Islam presents a European imperialist seeing firsthand the damage colonialism had caused and the value of a religion he had never truly understood. Here, Kuyper's doctrine of common grace shines as he displays a nuanced and respectful understanding of the Muslim world. Though an ardent Calvinist, Kuyper still knew that God's grace is expressed to unbelievers. Kuyper saw Islam as a culture and religion with much to offer the West, but also as a threat to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here he expresses a balanced view of early twentieth-century Islam that demands attention from the majority world today as well. Essays by prominent scholars bookend the volume, showing the relevance of these teachings in our time.