Sublime

In 1897, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his editorship of De Standaard, Dr. Kuyper said: “One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. And sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in sp

Kuyper’s followers are fond of quoting the manifesto he issued at Free University’s inaugural convocation: “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry ‘Mine!’

I wrote above my Weekly paper the motto—“A free Church in a free State.”

God inexorably excludes every human mediatorship.

He founded a newspaper, a university, a political party, and a denomination. Nor was he content to start something and then move on to a different project. During his career, which lasted from his ordination in the 1860s until his death in 1920, he regularly wrote articles for his newspaper; he taught theology at the Free University; he led his par

One of Kuyper’s favorite terms was “pluriformity.” He had a fondness for many-ness.

Calvin the doctrine of the “magistratus inferiores.”

Reformed type, were of Calvinistic origin.