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"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Saturday, 9 June 2012

Abraham Kuyper by Richard Mouw (updated with a new review link)

Abraham Kuyper
A Short and Personal Introdction
Richard J. Mouw
Eerdmans, 2011

For my brief review of this excellent book on Abraham Kuyper see here.





Other reviews:
On Goodreads
On Open Library
On Google books

Excerpts available from here.


Contents
Introduction

Section One
Kuyper on Theology and Culture: An Overview


Kuyper’s Calvinism
“Filling the Earth”
Celebrating Many-ness
The Spheres
Cultural “Dykes and Dams”
“Placing” Kuyper Politically
A Third Way
Spheres in the Bible?
Politics and Creation
The Church’s Place
The Antithesis
God’s “Excellent Gifts”

Section Two
Kuyper for the Twenty-First Century


Kuyperian Aggiornamento
Race: Adding Another “Neo”
Kuyper for Evangelicals
World-Viewing
Will the Bell Still Toll?
Enhancing the Church’s Role
Nurturing Cultural Patience
Beyond “Christendom”
When Spheres “Shrink”
The Challenge of Islam
A Kuyperianism “Under the Cross”


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