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In Our Program, Kuyper makes a comprehensive effort to counter the secular politics of his day with a Christian alternative. In an era where the church usually either controlled or was controlled by the state, Kuyper showed that it was possible to frame a political program in which church and state engage while remaining separate. Though couched in its particular time and place, Kuyper’s...

If here I look again for the origin of sovereign authority, then of course I have to find a power that could govern all these generations combined; a power that held in its hand the entire history of our nation and other nations; in short, a power not for one age but for all ages. And again we ask: who else could possess such power but God? In sum, sovereign political authority that is exercised among the nations of the earth has to cooperate with the laws that govern the life of mankind; with the
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