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Abraham Kuyper (/ ˈ k aɪ p ər / KY-pər, Dutch: [ˈaːbraːɦɑm ˈkœypər]; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) [1] was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist.
Kuyper had nominated anti-revolutionary Robert Melvil van Lijnden for Foreign Affairs. Both Mackay and Lohman initially rejected him and Melvil van Lijnden himself also had doubts, but eventually agreed. [12] Kuyper wanted Kool to stay on as minister of War, but he indicated that he did not like that as a liberal former Member of Parliament.
The center maintains in partnership with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam an online database of secondary literature about Abraham Kuyper. The center has also established an annual event organized to award the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life, during which the recipient delivers an address.
Kuyper based the idea of sphere sovereignty partially on the Christian view of existence coram Deo, every part of human life exists equally and directly "before the face of God." For Kuyper, this meant that sphere sovereignty involved a certain form of separation of church and state and a separation of state and other societal spheres, or anti ...
In 2007, Mouw, who sees Abraham Kuyper as a personal hero, [4] was awarded the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary by the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology. [5]
The Center for Public Justice. Dutch Treat, Calvin fox, archived from the original (Web log) on 2 April 2015 – a Neocalvinist commentary. Friend of Kuyper (blog), Google – Neo-Calvinist resources. You Should Know Neo-Calvinism, 11 February 2021. You Should Know Abraham Kuyper, 27 February 2020. by Mike Wagenman
The Netherlands had at least three pillars, namely Protestant, Catholic and social-democratic.Pillarisation was originally initiated by Abraham Kuyper and his Christian Democratic and neo-Calvinist (gereformeerd) Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) in the late 19th century; it was part of its philosophy of sphere sovereignty.
The 1886 Dutch Reformed Church split, also known as the Doleantie (from Latin dolere, 'to feel sorrow'), was the name of a prominent schism in the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederlands Hervormde Kerk) that took place in 1886 and was led by a renowned minister, Abraham Kuyper. [1] The Doleantie was not the first schism in the Dutch Reformed Church.