Abraham Kuyper: a short and personal introduction

Introduction

Section 1. Kuyper on Theology and Culture: An Overview

Kuyper's Calvinism

"Filling the Earth"

Celebrating Many-ness

The Spheres

Cultural "Dykes and Dams"

"Placing" Kuyper Politically

A Third Way

Spheres in the Bible?

Politics and Creation

The Church's Place

The Antithesis

God's "Excellent Gifts"

Section 2. Kuyper for the Twenty-First Century

Kuyperian Aggiornamento

Race: Adding Another "Neo"

Kuyper for Evangelicals

World-Viewing

Will the Bell Still Toll?

Enhancing the Church's Role

Nurturing Cultural Patience

Beyond "Christendom"

When Spheres "Shrink"

The Challenge of Islam

A Kuyperianism "Under the Cross"