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Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)—theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. James Bratt is the ideal scholar to tell the story of Kuyper’s remarkable life and work. He expertly...

to Kuyper show up in contemporary life, especially in the United States. A much-watered-down understanding of some of his seminal concepts is sometimes heard from the Christian Right in invocations of a “Christian worldview” and the putative Christian foundations of the United States. But Kuyper can and should be invoked in other settings. More moderate evangelicals have found help from Kuyper for reconceiving education, scholarship, and political action. Going further left, analogies to Kuyper’s
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