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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 19 February 2013

Going Dutch in the Modern Age

John Halsey Wood's doctoral dissertation is soon (May 2013) to be published by Oxford University Press.
It is marketed as "One of the first books about the Dutch Protestant social activist and public theologian Abraham Kuyper". A touch of an overstatement me thinks!

Going Dutch in the Modern Age
Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Netherlands

John Halsey Wood Jr.
OUP USA Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
256 pages | 235x156mm
978-0-19-992038-9  Hardback
Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Going Dutch in the Modern Age
Chapter Two: The Emergence of a Free Church Ecclesiology, 1863-1867
Chapter Three: The French Revolution as an Ecclesiological Crisis: Abraham Kuyper's Sacramental Ecclesiology
Chapter Four: A Believers' Church: Kuyper's Ecclesiology for Reformation
Chapter Five: The Ins and Outs of Baptism: The Development of Kuyper's Theology of Baptism
Chapter Six: Theologian of the Revolution: Abraham Kuyper's Radical Proposal for Church and State
Chapter Seven: Private Church and Public Theology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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