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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...

guiding the whole of creation back to the objective he decreed for it: the glory of his name.40 Bavinck’s theology of nature and grace is also christological. In words strongly reminiscent of Oliver O’Donovan’s statement that resurrection is the reaffirmation of creation, he asserts, “The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.”41 “The bodily resurrection of Christ from the dead is conclusive proof that Christianity does not adopt a hostile attitude toward anything human or natural,
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