Tag Archives: Abraham Kuyper

Act Two, Scene Four: If the Bible Is the Standard, Are Faith and Repentance Required for Citizenship?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 15, 2011

I haven’t been keeping up with Dr. Kloosterman’s serialized review of VanDrunen’s Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms. The series is reminiscent of the way that George Eliot and Charles Dickens wrote novels – you put together enough stories and episodes over a half-year in a magazine and you finally have one Home Depot of… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: How Can You Not Be 2K If You Are Spirituality of the Church?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 5, 2011

Calvin makes it easy; you only have to get over the National Covenant, Kuyper, Bahnsen, and Wilson: My kingdom is not of this world. By these words he acknowledges that he is a king, but, so far as was necessary to prove his innocence, he clears himself of the calumny; for he declares, that there… Read More→

Posted in Jure Divino Presbyterianism, spirituality of the church | Also tagged , , , , , , | 18 Responses

If Morally Indifferent, Why Not Morally Neutral?

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 10, 2011

I understand and have commented before on the scare word, neutral. The followers of Abraham Kuyper regard nothing as neutral; everything is either for or against Christ and so no secular or neutral realm exists. This has obvious appeal in Sunday school or at a political rally. But someone going to court, even to protest… Read More→

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With A Little Help from Our Experimental Calvinist Friends

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 26, 2011

Some of the critics of 2k have created the impression that it is a radical or non-mainstream position in the history of Reformed teaching. David VanDrunen’s recent publications suggest otherwise. Sometimes it seems that the debates are merely conflicting interpretations of history, with theology and exegesis, not to mention the church’s confession, waiting on the… Read More→

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A Proposal On Which All Anti-2kers May Unite

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 20, 2011

I know that not all anti-2kers get along. Heck, the Baylys seem to have banned Rabbi Bret from participating in all the fun over at their free wheeling discussions. Meanwhile, Dr. K., who may be the longest winded of 2k critics has appeal to Bret but may be too Dutch for the Baylys. Then there… Read More→

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Suffer, Submit, and Suck It Up

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 4, 2010

One of the interlocutors at this site suggested that neo-Calvinism and biblical theology of an amillennial variety go together well, and that no reasons existed for suggesting tension between someone like Geerhardus Vos and Abraham Kuyper. He linked to an essay that Richard B. Gaffin wrote on theonomy and claimed that Gaffin, a marked proponent… Read More→

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Nelson Kloosterman May Not Be But I Am Thankful for David VanDrunen

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 25, 2010

The reason is that Dave is a Calvinist who knows his Bible and is turning up the heat on that turkey we know as neo-Calvinism. Ultimately, however, neo-Calvinism needs to be questioned not because of its struggle to accomplish what it set out to do but because it is so foreign to the message of… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: The Hollowness of Article 36

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 26, 2010

Critics of two-kingdom theology from Dutch backgrounds often cite the Belgic Confession’s teaching on the civil magistrate as grounds for rejection. For those who don’t have a copy of the confession handy, Article 36 reads: And the government’s task is not limited to caring for and watching over the public domain but extends also to… Read More→

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This Is Not a Program for Changing the World

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 11, 2010

The discordant note in the Kuyperian and Niebuhrian conceptions of Reformed Protestantism is to turn Calvinism not into the little engine that could but the big combine that did and did it some more. Aside from the lack of humility inherent in pointing to Reformed Protestantism as a world-transforming faith that affects every aspect of… Read More→

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How Tim Keller Reasons

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 4, 2010

John Piper has a new book on thinking that I wonder if Tim Keller has read. (Do the celebrity figures of organizations like the Gospel Coalition have enough time, apart from their own writing, speaking, and travel to read the work of each other?) The reason for wondering is a tendency that Keller exhibits in… Read More→

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