PRO REGE

LIVING UNDER CHRIST’S KINGSHIP

Volume 2: The Kingship of Christ in Its Operation

ABRAHAM

KUYPER

Edited by John Kok with Nelson D. Kloosterman

Translated by Albert Gootjes

Introduction by Govert Buijs

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Pro Rege: Living Under Christ’s Kingship

Volume 2: The Kingship of Christ in Its Operation

Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology

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Originally published as Pro Rege of het Koningschap van Christus, door Dr. A. Kuyper. Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1911–1912

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Translator: Albert Gootjes

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ABRAHAM

KUYPER

Collected Works in Public Theology

GENERAL EDITORS

JORDAN J. BALLOR

MELVIN FLIKKEMA

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CONTENTS

General Editors’ Introduction

Editors’ Introduction

Volume Introduction

Abbreviations

Series I: Christ’s Kingship and His Subjects

I.1: A People of His Own

I.2: The Bond of Love

I.3: Confessing Our King

I.4: Being Witnesses

I.5: Bearing Our Cross

I.6: Soldiers of Our King

I.7: Denying Ourselves for Our King

I.8: Always Ready!

I.9: Conformed to the Image of His Son

I.10: Pilgrims

I.11: The New Commandment

Series II: Christ’s Kingship in His Church

II.1: The Mystical Body

II.2: The Visible Church

II.3: The Calling of the Disciples

II.4: The Training of the Apostles

II.5: The Holy Sacraments

II.6: Church Federation

II.7: Dwelling in His Church

II.8: Broken Unity

II.9: The Constitutive Significance of the Sacraments for the Church

II.10: The Church and the Holy Scriptures

II.11: The Disintegration of the Church

II.12: The Worldly Church

II.13: A Unique People

II.14: No King without a People

II.15: Neighboring Churches

II.16: Parish System

II.17: The Shepherd’s Care

II.18: Training for the Ministry

II.19: Tempted to Blasphemy

II.20: Private Initiative

II.21: Philanthropy

II.22: Summary

Series III: Christ’s Kingship and the Family

III.1: The Family is Not a New Creation

III.2: Christian Family

III.3: Corruption of the Best

III.4: Christ as the Head of the Husband

III.5: The Husband as the Head of His Wife

III.6: Feminism I

III.7: Feminism II

III.8: Children

III.9: Authority

III.10: Servants

III.11: Contact with the Outside World

III.12: The Family Altar

III.13: The Family and the Church

III.14: Work in the Family

III.15: Poverty in the Family...