Autor/-in: Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper. (1837-1920) was a leading Dutch figure in education, politics, and theology. He was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, was appointed to Parliament, and served as prime minister. Kuyper also founded the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, a political party, and a denomination, in addition to writing on a dizzying array of subjects. Ad de Bruijne. (Ph. D. , Leiden University) is full professor of Christian ethics and spirituality at the Theological University Kampen, the Netherlands. His main field of research concerns public theology, where he tries to bring the neo-Calvinist tradition into dialogue with contemporary debates and proposals concerning the public calling of church and Christians in a post-Christendom context. Andrew M. McGinnis. (Ph. D. , Calvin Theological Seminary) is a research fellow at the Junius Institute. He is the author of The Son of God Beyond the Flesh: A Historical and Theological Study of the extra Calvinisticum. (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014) and the editor of Franciscus Junius' The Mosaic Polity. (CLP Academic, 2015). He has written various articles and reviews and has assisted in the compilation of several academic bibliographies. John Halsey Wood Jr. (Ph. D. , Saint Louis University) is an independent scholar from Birmingham, Alabama. His book Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church. (Oxford, 2013) examines the development of Abraham Kuyper's free church ecclesiology.