his death notice, which was published alongside his last installment in his series “Concerning the Church.” Kuyper believed two things about the church. First, the church has a God-given role to play in the civic marketplace of cultural institutions. And, second, this role cannot be carried out faithfully if the church retreats into the private sphere and adopts a defensive posture against the world or accepts the sacred-secular dualism and engages in a restricted ministry of only saving souls for