encyclopedia of sacred theology: its principles

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Abraham Kuyper and Karl Barth on Creation as Revelation (June 10, 2013)

In Judeo-Christian history of thought, there's always been core belief that God is creator, and that the world has not always existed but was creation by God in the beginning. (Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen […]

Abraham Kuyper on Melchizedek (August 21, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper is among my favorites of the Dutch Calvinists. Here's a selection from his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology on Melchizedek. 63. Falsifications of the Conception of Theology The falsifications of Theology as science bear an entirely different character. By these we do not refer to the heretical divergencies, such as Protestants assert […]

Abraham Kuyper on Hegel, Schleiermacher and Natural Theology (June 22, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was a Dutch Reformed Theologian and Political, and in his massive three-volume Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology, I've quoted Kuyper's assessment of Hegel and Schleiermacher in regards to Natural Revelation. Beginning with the introduction in John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, the Reformed Church has defined its epistemology […]

Abraham Kuyper on Ectypal Knowledge (May 25, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper in his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology considers the widely discussed question "Is theology a science?" and "In What sense is theology a science?" Kuyper emphasizes through this book the necessity of palingenesia (i.e. regeneration) to have a right understanding of Christianity. In the following long quotation, Kuyper explains that a general comparison […]

Abraham Kuyper on Adam and Anthropology (May 4, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper has many extended anecdotes on Adam, especially in regards to our Anthropology (i.e. What is Man?) that were through his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology. I've gathered three extended quotes from this book and shared them here. Kuyper viewed the resurrection as a restoration of Adam to his pre-Fall (antelapsarianism?) , […]

Abraham Kuyper on Common Sense (April 25, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper by Theo van Doesburg (1910) Abraham Kuyper's Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles is one of the best theology works I've read this year, and I'd like to feature a few selections from it. The following is a brief anecdote on Kuyper's views on "Common Sense." Common Sense was a […]

Abraham Kuyper’s Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology (Selections) (March 15, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper's Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles is a large book that so-far-as-I-know has not been completely translated into English. Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is a famous Dutch Calvinist, who was Prime Minster (circa 1901-1905) of the Netherlands and wrote many books. Kuyper's most widely read book translated into English […]