The Kuyper Center Review, vol. 1: Politics, Religion, and Sphere Sovereignty

by L. Gordon Graham

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2010

Overview

Abraham Kuyper has long passed from the scene, but his influence still remains. Indeed, there is widespread and serious interest not only in Kuyper but also in Kuyperian themes among a new generation of thinkers.

The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary was established in admiration of Kuyper, whose life as pastor, theologian, journalist, and politician remarkably exemplifies how confidence in the truth of a Christian conception of the world can be expressed in both theory and practice.

Many but not all of the chapters in this volume come from the Kuyper Conference of 2008, the theme of which was “Sphere Sovereignty and Civil Society.” Most of these essays thus have a broadly “political” character, some addressing contemporary issues, others of a more historical nature. Of special interest in this volume is a summary/translation of Kuyper’s 1907 essay “The Enigma of Islam,” never before published in English.

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Contents

• “Reflections on Pluralism” by Oliver O’Donovan
• “The Concept of “Civil Society” and Christian Social Pluralism” by Jonathan Chaplin
• “Sphere Sovereignty among Abraham Kuyper’s Other Political Theories” by James D. Bratt
• “Kuyper, Neo-Calvinism, and Contemporary Political Philosophy” by Gordon Graham
• “Kuyper, Sphere Sovereignty, and the Possibility of Political Friendship” by Michael J. DeMoor
• “Covenant Theology for a Secular Society: Abraham Kuyper’s De Leer der Verbonden (1880) as an Experiment in Modern Theology” by John Halsey Wood, Jr.
• “Neo-Calvinism and the Welfare State” by George Harinck
• “Neither Ignore nor Modify nor Disrupt: The Kuyperian Model of Deliberation as Applied to Same-Sex Marriage” by James J. S. Foster
• “‘Here the Shoe Pinches’: Kuyper, Tolerance, and the Virtues” by John R. Bowlin
• “Kuyper on Islam: A Summary and Translation” by Rimmer de Vries

Product Details

• Title: Politics, Religion, and Sphere Sovereignty
• Author: L. Gordon Graham
• Series: The Kuyper Center Review
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 160
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity and politics › Congresses; Kuyper, Abraham, 1837-1920 › Congresses
• ISBNs: 9780802864918, 0802864910
• Resource ID: LLS:KYPRCNTRRVW01
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T16:54:14Z

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€