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Abraham Kuyper's Christian vision of society, communicated in the famous Stone Lectures one hundred years ago, remains influential worldwide. In this volume an international cast of scholars reflects on Kuyper's social and political thought and its meaning for contemporary public life. These penetrating essays explore from an interdisciplinary perspective how a Christian worldview can help address the most pressing issues of twenty-first-century civilization -- religious pluralism, civil society, and globalization.

Foreword

ix

Ronald A. Wells

Preface

xi

Max Stackhouse

Part I Kuyper: The Man and His Context

Abraham Kuyper: Puritan, Victorian, Modern

3

(19)

James D. Bratt

The Meeting of the Wellsprings: Kuyper and Warfield at Princeton

22

(23)

Peter S. Heslam

Calvinism and Romanticism: Abraham Kuyper as a Calvinist Politician

45

(14)

Jan de Bruijn

The Carrot and the Stick: Kuyper on Gender, Family, and Class

59

(28)

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

Part II Theology and Public Discourse

Some Reflections on Sphere Sovereignty

87

(23)

Richard J. Mouw

Is Theology in Public Discourse Possible outside Communities of Faith?

110

(13)

Michael Welker

A Diamond in the Dark: Kuyper's Doctrine of Scripture

123

(22)

Harriet A. Harris

Abraham Kuyper, Leo XIII, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Search for an American Public Theology

145

(30)

John Bolt

Part III Spheres of Justice and Civil Society

Multiform Responsibility and the Revitalization of Civil Society

175

(14)

Henk E. S. Woldring

Sphere Sovereignty and the Anglo-American Tradition

189

(16)

Elaine Storkey

Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Liberation: Alternative Approaches in Catholic Social Thought

205

(16)

Paul E. Sigmund

Prospects for a Christian Social Philosophy in a Shrinking World

221

(22)

M. Elaine Botha

Part IV Religious Pluralism and the Demands of Democracy

The Biography and Biology of Liberty: Abraham Kuyper and the American Experiment

243

(20)

John Witte Jr.

The African and African-American Understanding of Our Common Humanity: A Critique of Abraham Kuyper's Anthropology

263

(18)

Peter J. Paris

Living in Christendom: Jews and Modern Democracy

281

(12)

Elliott Abrams

Part V Globalization and the Emergence of a Transitional Society

The Clash of World Religions in the Emerging Global Society

293

(13)

M. Thomas Thangaraj

Extending the Covenant: Federalism and Constitutionalism in a Global Era

306

(19)

Daniel J. Elazar

Globalization, Regionalization, and Sphere Sovereignty

325

(17)

Bob Goudzwaard

Is Blood Thicker Than Justice? The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper for Southern Africa

342

(23)

H. Russel Botman

Conclusion

Why Kuyper Now?

365

(8)

James W. Skillen

Contributors

373

(4)

Index

377

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