Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 2 mindmap

Mindmap of Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism ch 2: Calvinism and Religion.

Here Kuyper raises four important questions:

• Is religion for humanity's sake or God's?
• Does religion operate directly or indirectly?
• Is it partial or universal?
• Is it abnormal or normal?

In the case of Calvinism, for Kuyper, religion is for God's sake; it operates directly from the heart and not via intermediaries such as priests or a church; religion is to do with our whole existence; and it is soteriological in character - we need regeneration and revelation.