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This anthology of key essays and speeches presents Kuyper’s thoughts on the church. Included are selections from Kuyper’s doctoral dissertation on the theology of John Calvin and John a Lasco; various treatises and sermons such as the Twofold Fatherland and Address on Missions; and selections from Kuyper’s larger works on the church, such as Kuyper’s commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. The...

all citizens; but concerning the citizens, he asserts emphatically that they really are in the church, just as the particular members are. He writes that all of history “always places the political rule within the church.”10 In §32 he repeats: “It cannot be denied that the Christian magistrate has some general power in ecclesiastical matters.”11 Bernardinus de Moor cites this view without any reservation in 1771.12 The very same position is taken by Voetius,13 Walaeus,14 and likewise Rivet.15 Calvin
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