The Kuyper Center Review, vol. 3: Calvinism and Culture

by L. Gordon Graham

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2013

Overview

Some religious traditions—such as Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Eastern Orthodox—have aesthetically rich resources on which to draw for the renewal of arts in everyday life. In contrast, Calvinism has generally been suspicious of the arts.

The essays in this volume attempt to explore new avenues of thought about Calvinism’s relation to the arts. Part historical, part theological, and part practical, they offer a wide-ranging exploration of neo-Calvinism’s relationship to the arts, both at a general level and in connection with specific art forms. Overall they suggest that the neo-Calvinism espoused by Abraham Kuyper can and should make more of the arts than the traditional view of Reformed Christianity might be thought to allow.

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Contents

• “Culture Regained? On the Impossibility and Meaninglessness of Culture in (Some) Calvinist Thought” by Neal DeRoo
• “Reply to Neal DeRoo” by Albert M. Wolters
• “The Pilgrimage to Kuyper? Adolf Schlatter and Abraham Kuyper on Theology, Culture, and Art” by Michael Bräutigam
• “Theology and Architecture: Calvinist Principles for the Faithful Construction of Urban Space” by Matthew Kaemingk
• “Calvinism, Necessity, and the Death of Tragedy” by John De Soto
• “The Correlation between Creation and Culture in the Theology of Abraham Kuyper and Colin E. Gunton” by William Baltmanis Whitney
• “The Calvinian Eucharistic Poetics of Emily Dickinson” by Jennifer Wang
• “Beautiful Harmony: Kuyper, Dooyeweerd, and the American Musical Avant-Garde” by Janet Danielson
• “From Neo-Calvinism to Broadway Boogie Woogie: Abraham Kuyper as the Jilted Stepfather of Piet Mondrian” by James D. Bratt
• “The Music God Likes and the Calvinist Tradition” by John Barber
• “The Vampire Squid: Abraham Kuyper on Public Entertainment” by Clifford B. Anderson
• “To Transcend and to Transform: The Neo-Calvinist Relationship of Church and Cultural Transformation” by James Eglinton

Product Details

• Title: Calvinism and Culture
• Author: L. Gordon Graham
• Series: The Kuyper Center Review
• Volume: 3
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 198
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Calvinism; Kuyper, Abraham, 1837-1920; Christianity and culture
• ISBNs: 9780802868763, 0802868762
• Resource ID: LLS:KYPRCNTRRVW03
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T16:54:16Z

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€