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...
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 his thinking and would continue to do so throughout the remainder of his career. For Kuyper, America stood as a kind of beacon among the nations, a place where Calvinism’s cultural and religious fruit had been allowed to develop fully and freely. In a kind of Dutch Calvinistic inflection of American idea of manifest destiny, for instance...
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"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us"
To commemorate the executionary death of Jesus on what is called Good Friday, it is appropriate to contemplate a truth apart from which every person would be damned. This doctrine is perhaps more synonymous with the Christian faith than any other doctrine. However, it is also a tenet that has...
Things Unseen: A Systematic Introduction to the Christian Faith and Reformed Theology
On a Sunday afternoon in 1935, J. Gresham Machen stepped into a broadcast booth at WIP Radio in Philadelphia and began something no one had tried before: teaching Reformed theology over the radio. In the vein of C.S. Lewis’s landmark “Mere Christianity” talks, Machen’s addresses are a crystal-clear articulation of...
Part 1 of 3 on the Three Forms of Unity
Part 1 of our 3-part-series where Danny Hyde gives us a primer on each of the 3 documents that comprise the Three Forms of Unity. Today Danny Hyde takes us to school on the gloriousness that is the Belgic Confession. Listen in as we get a proper primer on the...
by Jacob Aitken
Imagine if Abraham Kuyper didn’t hold to his famous doctrine of common grace, yet still believed in Christ’s lordship over all spheres. Imagine if one believed that the church would be persecuted in the future, but nevertheless believed that the church will be on the front lines. That gives one...
For Moms, Biblicists and Lovers of 90's Music
Join us as we sit down with Dr. Guy Waters, contributor and co-editor of Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Crossway, 2020), and discuss Covenant Theology asking: Is the principal of Covenant Theology something that a Bible reader could easily, or difficultly, glean from actively engaging their Bibles apart...
by Steve Bishop
D. H. Th. Vollenhoven (1892-1978) was the brother -in-law of Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) and together they developed a neo-Calvinist philosophy... The starting point of this philosophy was in the creator rather than in the creation. It starts from the sovereignty of God rather than reason, thought, logic, observation, common sense...
by Peter Schuurman
Albert Wolters was my Greek professor, a columnist for The Christian Courier, an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls’ Copper Scroll, and a careful exegetical preacher; but he is best known internationally as the author of Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview—what philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff called “The best...
"Earnestly Desire the Spiritual Gifts, Especially That You May Prophesy" - Holy Spirit
Dr. Craig Keener is a world-renowned Biblical scholar, and so, naturally, he believes the Bible, and takes seriously the command, when it says “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.” Listen in as we ask Dr. Keener (in connection with his book “Gift and...
By Rudi Hayward
Wow, really?! That phrase sounds super complicated. You may have heard that sphere sovereignty was made famous by the great theologian and stateman Abraham Kuyper, that it also served as the basis for that obscure, but brilliant, Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd. Well, you should know about them too! But whereas...