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Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

Abraham Kuyper was, by any standard, one of the most extraordinary figures in modern Christian history. He was a Dutch Reformed minister, a gifted theologian, a prolific journalist, the leader of a political party, the cofounder of the Free University of Amsterdam (where he was professor of theology), a member of the Dutch Parliament, and eventually prime minister of the Netherlands. Kuyper's...

of Herman Dooyeweerd.1 To this list should be added Johannes Althusius (c. 1563–1638), German jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.2 The overwhelming background of Kuyper’s concept of sphere sovereignty is the reconstruction of nations and societies that developed out of the Enlightenment.3 For Groen van Prinsterer and Kuyper, this spirit of revolution, rebuilding whole societies from the ground up by the light of “reason,” was embodied most clearly in the French Revolution and what followed
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