However, Kuyper is no Oswald Spengler, one of Kuyper’s contemporaries and author of the classic Decline of the West—for Kuyper the decline of Christendom in the West may also serve as a backhanded compliment to the kingship of Christ, whose reign shines all the more brilliantly against society’s fall away from Christ. Kuyper’s Pro Rege is daring and provocative. He takes theological risks, advancing speculative ideas and pushing concepts to their limits. In this
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