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Pro Rege: Living under Christ’s Kingship, Volume 1: The Exalted Nature of Christ’s Kingship is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Pro Rege, Kuyper shows how the kingship of Christ affects all areas of life, building upon the work he began in Common Grace. In his view, seeing Jesus as king is foundational to bridging the gap between the believer’s life inside and outside the church. In this first volume, Kuyper examines how the kingdom of Satan opposes, undermines, and obscures the kingship of Christ. He follows this by...

Kuyper’s animosity toward a superficial cultural Christianity emerges most clearly in his arguments against a national church in volume 2 of Pro Rege. A national church assumes that the entire population is baptized and belongs, to a greater or lesser extent, to the Christian faith. Kuyper makes the straightforward point that a national church excludes members of other religions from membership, though it frequently requires them to pay church taxes. Making a less obvious point, he asserts that a
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