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Chargement... Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introductionpar Richard J. Mouw
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Richard Mouw was first drawn to Abraham Kuyper’s writings about public life in the turbulent 1960s. As he struggled to find the right Christian stance toward big social issues such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Mouw discovered Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism -- and, with it, a robust vision of active Christian involvement in public life that has guided him ever since. In this "short and personal introduction” Mouw sets forth Kuyper’s main ideas on Christian cultural discipleship, including his views on sphere sovereignty, the antithesis, common grace, and more. Mouw looks at ways to update -- and, in some places, even correct -- Kuyper’s thought as he applies it to such twenty-first-century issues as religious and cultural pluralism, technology, and the challenge of Islam. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While Mouw draws on Kuyper's various writings, the one work that makes Kuyper so compelling is Lectures on Calvinism, which he bgave as the Stone Lectures at Princeton in 1898. The main subject of Lectures can be called Kuyper's theology of culture. As Mouw charmingly says, "this was the Kuyper who lured me in." What Mouw discovered in that classic work "was a vision of active involvement in public life that would allow me to steer my way between a privatized evangelicalism on the one hand and the liberal Protestant or Catholic approaches to public discipleship on the other hand."
The idea of "sphere sovereignty" in Kuyper has caused some people to stumble, but Mouw does a fine job of easing the perhaps reluctant reader into it. Kuyper insists that each of the various patterns of culture--family, business, education, art, church, state--is meant to be sovereign within its own sphere because each is to do what none other does.
Mouw seems to find in Kuyper more of a role of government than for institutions in other spheres.
Kuyper often said, and his zealous followers still quote this line [Francis Schaeffer popularized it]: "the fact that there are two kinds of people [redeemed and unredeemed] occasions of necessity the fact of two kinds of human life and two kinds of science [knowing]."
[Mark] Noll was fully supportive of the whole Kuyperian vision of asserting Christ's Lordship in all areas of life. But sometimes that led to a triumphalism that did not reflect well on the Christ of the Cross.