The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper
Overview
Richard J. Mouw is well known for his incisive views on the intersection of culture and Christianity and for his efforts to make the thought of major Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper accessible to average Christians. In this volume Mouw provides the scholarly “backstory” to his popular books as he interprets, applies, expands on—and at times even corrects—Kuyper’s remarkable vision for faith and public life.
In 13 essays Mouw explores and develops the Kuyperian perspective on key topics in Christian cultural discipleship, including public theology, sphere sovereignty, education, creation, and more. He deftly articulates an ecumenically enriched neo-Calvinist—or “neo-Kuyperian”—perspective that appropriates and contextualizes the ideas and insights of this important theologian and statesman for new challenges in Christian thought and service.
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- Explores and develops the Kuyperian perspective on key topics in Christian cultural discipleship
- Appropriates and contextualizes the ideas and insights of Abraham Kuyper
- Includes 13 Essays on topics such as public theology, education, creation, and more
- Calvin’s Legacy for Public Theology
- Culture, Church, and Civil Society: Abraham Kuyper for a New Century
- Some Reflections on Sphere Sovereignty
- Modal Diversity in Dooyeweerd’s Social Thought
- Law, Covenant, and Moral Commonalities: Some Neo-Calvinist Explorations
- Educational Choice and Pillarization: Some Lessons for Americans from the Dutch Experiment in “Affirmative Impartiality”
- Creational Politics: Some Calvinist Amendments
- Klaas Schilder as Public Theologian
- Learning from the Dutch Calvinist “Splits”
- True Church and True Christians: Some Reflections on Calvinist Discernment
- Baptism and the Salvific Status of Children: An Examination of Some Intra-Reformed Debates
- The Seminary, the Church, and the Academy
- Dutch Calvinist Philosophical Influences in North America
Top Highlights
“Our cultural activity, in both its obedient and disobedient forms, occurs within a creation that is ordered culturally, in at least two senses: God created a macro-ordering of diverse spheres of cultural interaction, and he gave to each of the individual spheres its own unique internal orderedness. The fulfillment of the cultural mandate, then, requires the discovery and implementation of God’s complex ordering design, both among and within the spheres.” (Page 42)
“each sphere exists coram deo, standing in an unmediated relationship to the rule of God” (Page 40)
“Since all these spheres have the same origin in ‘the divine mandate,’ politi” (Page 34)
“The first and most important one is this: What is God doing in the world? Then, secondly: What must the church be like in order to align itself with what God is doing in the world? And then this third question: What do theological schools need to be like in order to equip the church to align itself with what God is doing in the world?” (Page 28)
“Here government is not fundamentally a remedial response to human perversity, but a natural provision for the regulating—the ordering—of the complexity of created cultural life.” (Page 43)
- Title: The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper
- Author: Richard J. Mouw
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 246
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Historical Theology