The Kuyper Center Review, vol. 5: Church and Academy

by L. Gordon Graham

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2015

Overview

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) — pastor, theologian, journalist, politician — is highly regarded as exemplifying how a Christian worldview can be confidently expressed in both theory and practice. Honoring the spirit of Kuyper’s legacy, The Kuyper Center Review annually publishes substantial essays that relate the tradition of Reformed theology to issues of public life.

Few themes are more directly related to Kuyper’s thought than that of church and academy. The essays in this volume examine Kuyper’s vision for a distinctively Christian university and consider what it means today, especially in light of how secularized the Netherlands has become since Kuyper’s time. The contributors explore Kuyper’s understanding of church and academy by placing it in a broader intellectual and theological context and drawing comparisons with other notable theological thinkers. Taken together, these essays show that much can still be learned from Kuyper and his contemporaries.

Key Features

• Provides a variety of significant historical-theological perspectives on the relation between church and academy
• Features historical, theological, and practical essays on Kuyper and his enduring significance
• Presents articles on key topics produced by the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology at Princeton

Contents

• “Dread, Hope, and the African Dream: An Ecumenical Collage,” by H. Russel Botman
• “F.W.J. Schelling: A Philosophical Influence on Kuyper’s Social Thought,” by Dylan Pahman
• “The Pulpit, the Lectern, and the Sickbed: Comparing Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Herman Bavinck on Church and Academy,” by Javier A. Garcia
• “The Heart of the Academy: Herman Bavinck in Debate with Modernity on the Academy, Theology, and the Church,” by Marinus de Jong
• “Not without the Church as Institute: The Relevance of Abraham Kuyper’s Ecclesiology for Christian Public and Theological Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century,” by Ad de Bruijne
• “Evolution as a Bone of Contention between Church and Academy: How Abraham Kuyper Can Help Us Bridge the Gap,” by Gijsbert van den Brink
• “A Queen without a Throne? Harnack, Schlatter, and Kuyper on Theology in the University,” by Michael Bräutigam
• “Kuyper on the Teaching of History,” by Harry Van Dyke
• “Abraham Kuyper and the Idea of a Christian Scholar,” by Gordon Graham

Praise for the Print Edition

A notable collection of essays, providing a glimpse of how Kuyper might interact with contemporary issues related to the church and the academy.

—Christian Scholar’s Review

Product Details

• Title: Church and Academy
• Author: L. Gordon Graham
• Series: The Kuyper Center Review
• Volume: 5
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Pages: 154
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Education (Christian theology) › Congresses; Kuyper, Abraham, 1837-1920 › Congresses; Bavinck, Herman, 1854-1921 › Congresses; Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 › Congresses
• ISBNs: 9780802872456, 080287245X
• Resource ID: LLS:KYPRCNTRRVW05
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:04:33Z

About L. Gordon Graham

Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, earned M.A. degrees from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Durham, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Durham. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s premier academy of letters, in 1999. He is an ordained Anglican priest, and his areas of academic interest include aesthetics, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the Scottish philosophical tradition. He is currently North American representative of the Society for Applied Philosophy, and editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy. His courses include “Philosophy, Art, and Culture†and “The Scottish Philosophical Tradition.â€