Scholarship: Two Convocation Addresses on University Life (Biblia.com)

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In Scholarship, Dutch scholar and theologian Abraham Kuyper discusses the true focus of Christian education, explaining that scholarly study is a calling meant to help us better know the Creator. Kuyper originally delivered these two speeches as convocation addresses to the students at the Free University of Amsterdam, which he founded.

And scholars, far from being able to do without that faith, must begin by being rich in that faith if they are ever to feel their heart stir with the holy impulse that drives them to engage in true scholarship. Still, scholarship is something all its own—not something higher, but a work of our minds during which the minds travel along other paths. Even if there were no salvation for sinners and if God’s wrath plunged us all into eternal perdition, even then our race would not be absolved from the

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