Creating a Christian Worldview : Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism

Heslam, Peter Somers; Kuyper, Abraham

ISBN 10: 0802843263 / ISBN 13: 9780802843265

Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 257077-n

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Creating a Christian Worldview : Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism
• Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0802843263
• ISBN-13: 9780802843265
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) dominated the religious and political life of the Netherlands for nearly half a century, and his ideas continue to inspire an international school of thought. This book by Peter Heslam discusses Kuyper's ideas in their context by providing a historical commentary on the book in which they receive their most significant expression, Lectures on Calvinism — a series of six lectures that Kuyper delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1898. Heslam begins by reviewing Kuyper's importance in the history of ideas and explaining why Lectures on Calvinism is still of special interest. In the main body of the book Heslam provides a probing analysis of each of the six lectures in turn. Central to Heslam's analysis is a discussion of the motivation of Kuyper's thought: why did he maintain the standpoints he did, and what did he hope to achieve by doing so? In answering this question, Heslam explores Kuyper's position relative to others of his time and in connection with the events of his own career. Published in the centennial year of Abraham Kuyper's famous Stone Lectures, this volume offers a valuable study of Kuyper's thought and the abiding worldview that is his legacy.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Heslam is director of the Capitalism Project andlecturer in social and economic ethics at the LondonInstitute for Contemporary Christianity and tutor at RidleyHall, Cambridge.