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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.

Tuesday, 31 December 2019





Abraham Kuyper in Common Grace, Volume 2:
Christ is not unique as one thinker among others. The knowledge we have from him is not owing to any research he performed Jesus has no scientific writings that immortalize his name among us. No school put him on the honor roll for the splendor of his wisdom. Rather, understood in the normal sense of the word, Christ was an illiterate among the unlearned, one man among the rest, a rabbi among the masses, a teacher to the humble. Measured according to standard criteria for erudition and scholarship, Christ would not even count among the scholars Every attempt to evaluate his significance for science in this way must therefore be decidedly rejected. Those who list Christ’s holy name alongside Confucius, Socrates, Plato, or Augustine underestimate him altogether, deny his unique position, and veil his kingly majesty also in the sphere of science.

3 comments:

Mark Roques said...

Steve - thank you so much for reminding us about Kuyper and his love for Jesus. Thanks also for sending me your excellent paper on Kuyper which is a joy to read. Keep up the great work you are doing.

stevebishop said...

Thanks Mark

Mark Roques said...

Thanks also Steve for putting me on to Science and Grace by Tim morris and Don Petcher. A very useful book and good sections on both Kuyper and Dooyeweerd. I hope that TFN can use this book
in a reading group.