And Why I Want Christians to Read Him
I thought “I should wipe this pee off. If I was in the garden, or the new heavens and new earth, there would be no pee on the toilet seat. I wasn’t created to pee on the seat nor were people created to have to sit on my pee.” And so right then and there, in the face of God – with nobody watching, in a mighty act of worship, I wiped the pee off the toilet seat. It was one of the first Christian things I have ever done without whack motives...
by Surya Harefa
In Japan, the earliest reference to Kuyper can be attributed to Takakura Tokutarō (1885-1934), a pastor and theologian of the Japan Christ Church. In a 1923 work, he drew attention to Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism as a proper analysis of the relation between Christianity and culture. Takakura most likely read Kuyper’s work during his study of theology in the UK (1921-1924), at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford. The first Japanese translation of Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism was published in 1932. Founders of the Reformed Church in Japan (RCJ) adopted Kuyper’s worldview...
Experiencing God with Kuyper the Mystic or the Cerebral Kuyper?
Join us we sit down with Steven Garber and identify and discuss the core longings of the human heart – especially those of the Christian. We ask questions like “how can Christian’s experience God?” - “Is Abraham Kuyper’s mysticism unachievable?” - “What values is there in merely reading about God and Theology?” - “What should the Christian life consist of?” – and more…
by David T. Koyzis
It was autumn of 1978. I was just beginning two years of graduate education at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies (ICS). Because my chosen field was political theory, I intended to study primarily under Bernard Zylstra (1934-1986), who had completed his own dissertation at the Free University under philosopher and legal scholar Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977). However, there were other courses I was required to take as well. One of these was a three-week crash course in Philosophical Foundations taught by Albert M. “Al” Wolters, who was then Senior Member in History of Philosophy. Unofficially known as “Boot Camp,” this course was intended to immerse incoming students in the larger neocalvinist tradition...
by Thiago Machado Silva
Dutch Neocalvinism comes to Brazil from the first publications of the American theologian Francis Schaeffer and the paraecclesiastical institution L’Abri, responsible for spreading Schaefferian thinking and making known neocalvinist authors, whose works aim to instrumentalize believers for their involvement in public spaces. “L’Abri Brasil” is thus characterized as an important interlocutor in this process...
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And Why I Want Christians to Read Him
I thought “I should wipe this pee off. If I was in the garden, or the new heavens and new earth, there would be no pee on the toilet seat. I wasn’t created to pee on the seat nor were people created to have to sit on my pee.” And...
by Surya Harefa
In Japan, the earliest reference to Kuyper can be attributed to Takakura Tokutarō (1885-1934), a pastor and theologian of the Japan Christ Church. In a 1923 work, he drew attention to Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism as a proper analysis of the relation between Christianity and culture. Takakura most likely read...
Experiencing God with Kuyper the Mystic or the Cerebral Kuyper?
Join us we sit down with Steven Garber and identify and discuss the core longings of the human heart – especially those of the Christian. We ask questions like “how can Christian’s experience God?” - “Is Abraham Kuyper’s mysticism unachievable?” - “What values is there in merely reading about God...
by David T. Koyzis
It was autumn of 1978. I was just beginning two years of graduate education at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies (ICS). Because my chosen field was political theory, I intended to study primarily under Bernard Zylstra (1934-1986), who had completed his own dissertation at the Free University under philosopher and...
by Thiago Machado Silva
Dutch Neocalvinism comes to Brazil from the first publications of the American theologian Francis Schaeffer and the paraecclesiastical institution L’Abri, responsible for spreading Schaefferian thinking and making known neocalvinist authors, whose works aim to instrumentalize believers for their involvement in public spaces. “L’Abri Brasil” is thus characterized as an important...
Jordan Ballor
Abraham Kuyper visited the United States in 1898, and his trip occasioned not only the famed Stone Lectures but a number of other memorable events as well. Among these was the collection Varia Americana, in which Kuyper reflected on the real-world experiences in a country that had loomed large in...
The Rise, Demise, and Global Resurgence of Abraham Kuyper
Listen in as we sit down with the treasurer of the heritage of neo-Calvinism himself: Dr. George Harinck. In this episode we survey the spread and implications Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck thoughts and teachings. This interview is kicking off a series that will run the next few months at...
Naming the presence of God in our midst
“God with us.” God with us? “YHWH with us” (But isn’t that the first person of the Trinity?)? Jesus left, but he leaves the Spirit? And that’s better how? Join us as we sit down with Myk Habets to nuance the points of contact, the roles of, and the relations...
Gettin’ stoked on metaphor, allusion, & foreshadowing
Chad Bird is in the business of turning on lights. If you crack open one of his books, or listen to his podcasts, don’t’ be surprised if one of his hands comes out of the book and flips the switch on your Old Testament understanding. Most of us see the...
