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Going Dutch in the Modern Age - Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Netherlands (Hardcover)
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Going Dutch in the Modern Age - Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Netherlands (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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Abraham Kuyper is known as the energetic Dutch Protestant social
activist and public theologian of the 1898 Princeton Stone
Lectures, the Lectures on Calvinism. In fact, the church was the
point from which Kuyper's concerns for society and public theology
radiated. In his own words, ''The problem of the church is none
other than the problem of Christianity itself.'' The loss of state
support for the church, religious pluralism, rising nationalism,
and the populist religious revivals sweeping Europe in the
nineteenth century all eroded the church's traditional supports.
Dutch Protestantism faced the unprecedented prospect of ''going
Dutch''; from now on it would have to pay its own way. John Wood
examines how Abraham Kuyper adapted the Dutch church to its modern
social context through a new account of the nature of the church
and its social position. The central concern of Kuyper's
ecclesiology was to re-conceive the relationship between the inner
aspects of the church-the faith and commitment of the members-and
the external forms of the church, such as doctrinal confessions,
sacraments, and the relationship of the church to the Dutch people
and state. Kuyper's solution was to make the church less dependent
on public entities such as nation and state and more dependent on
private support, especially the good will of its members. This
ecclesiology de-legitimated the national church and helped Kuyper
justify his break with the church, but it had wider effects as
well. It precipitated a change in his theology of baptism from a
view of the instrumental efficacy of the sacrament to his later
doctrine of presumptive regeneration wherein the external sacrament
followed, rather than preceded and prepared for, the intenral work
grace. This new ecclesiology also gave rise to his well-known
public theology; once he achieved the private church he wanted, as
the Netherlands' foremost public figure, he had to figure out how
to make Christianity public again.
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