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Chapyer 6 'Calvinism and the future'

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Wordle on Kuyper's Lectures Ch 6

This is a 'wordle' of Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 6 "Calvinism and the future". The size of the word is proportional to its use.

Throughout the lectures Kuyper has been making much use of the word 'life'. Here it is the word most used. For Kuyper Calvinism is life in all it fullness - and that affects the whole of life.

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Mindmap of chapter 6

Monday, 30 July 2012

Wordle on Kuyper's Lectures Ch 5

This is a 'wordle' of Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 5 "Calvinism and art". The size of the word is proportional to its use.

As in Chapter 1 the words life and development are used often.

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Mindmap of Chapter 5

Friday, 27 July 2012

Wordle on Kuyper's Lectures Ch 4

This is a 'wordle' of Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 4 "Calvinism and science". The size of the word is proportional to its use.

As would be expected the terms science, Calvinism and God appear most. Life also is predominantly used. The term cosmos has many mentions - again showing Kuyper's emphasis that the gospel of the kingdom is good news for the whole cosmos and not humans only.

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Chapyer 6 'Calvinism and the future'

Mindmap of Chapter 4

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Wordle on Kuyper's lectures Ch 3

This is a 'wordle' of Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 3 "Calvinism and Politics". The size of the word is proportional to its use.

Again the usual and expected terms appear many times: God, government, church, state, authority, Calvinism; more unusually, for a late nineteenth-century Calvinist, the words 'sphere' and 'sovereignty' appear in conjunction.

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Mindmap of chapter 3

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Wordle of Kuyper's Lectures Ch 2

This is a 'wordle' of Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 2 "Calvinism as religion". The size of the word is proportional to its use.

The usual words are large: God, religion, church, human, Calvinism, Christ.
Interestingly, so too are: life, earth, world. This shows Kuyper's concern for a worldy (in the right sense) form of Christianity.
One surprise is that the word 'must' gets a lot of mentions. This is perhaps indicative of Kuypers' rhetorical style.

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Mindmap of chapter 2

Friday, 20 July 2012

Wordle of Kuyper's Lectures Ch 1

This is a 'wordle' of Abraham kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism Ch 1 "Calvinism as a lifesystem". The size of the word is proportional to its use.

Hardly surprising is that words such as Calvinism, God, world, church, human/ man are used a lot. But what does stand out are the two concepts life and development. These were important for Kuyper in a way that wasn't in so many other late nineteenth-century Calvinist works.

Wordles will follow on the other lectures in the nest few weeks/ days.

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