faith and action. Kuyper found cultural Christianity distasteful because it failed to engage the world meaningfully. He saw it as a sacrifice of action in the world to retain the purity of faith in the church. But even with these world-engaging impulses, Kuyper did not fully perceive the corrosive consequences of cultural Christianity. Kuyper’s early departure from cultural Christianity can be seen most clearly in his thoughts about the socio-political issues facing the Netherlands during the early