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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...

challenge to theology and the church. In Kuyper’s estimate “a time like ours” was a time “when especially the church question dominates every other issue.”3 Therefore Kuyper devoted himself to the doctrine of the church, and he developed his distinctive ecclesiological answer, the church as organism and as institution, in response to the social challenges of his day. Ecclesiology concerns the social nature of humanity’s relation to God. The social disintegration that
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