Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat

[Tai-chi]

Book discussion on a biography of Abraham Kuyper.

[Trice]

How's it going with this?

[Tai-chi]

So far, so good. I'm very part-time on it though, so I'm still reading about the young Kuyper just about to begin his first pastorate.

[Trice]

anything standing out with the writing, organization, style, good quotes, etc? or about Kuyper so far?

[Tai-chi]

There was something in the intro about his approach to sphere sovereignty, but I haven't gotten to that point in his actual bio yet. What was interesting was that Kuyper spent much of his earlier days as a theological super-liberal (i.e., kind of a Protestant Sadducee) before his conversion experience prior to his first pastoral posting. Ironically, this was all going on during and after his seminary experience...

[Tai-chi]

Update: made some progress on the book. Kuyper (still a young man) is now a Calvinist and has left pastoral work (and church politics) for Parliament.

[Trice]

Tai-chi wrote: "Update: made some progress on the book. Kuyper (still a young man) is now a Calvinist and has left pastoral work (and church politics) for Parliament."

interesting! this is telling me how little I really know about the man.