Foreword

Ronald A. Wells

Editor's Note on the Selections

Acknowledgments

Introduction Abraham Kuyper: His World and Work

THE DOCUMENTS

Beginnings

Uniformity: The Curse of Modern Life (1869) First piece of systematic cultural criticism

Confidentially (1873) Narrative of Kuyper's conversion

Church and Theology

Conservatism and Orthodoxy: False and True Preservation (1870) Farewell sermon at Utrecht

Modernism: A Fata Morgana in the Christian Domain (1871) Seminal critique of theological liberalism

"It Shall Not Be So Among You" (1886) Sermon upon Kuyper's ouster from the Dutch National Reformed Church

Perfectionism (1879) Critique of Holiness theology

Common Grace (1902-4) The hinge of Kuyper's constructive theology

Politics and Society

Maranatha (1891) Keynote address at Antirevolutionary Party convention

Manual Labor (1889) Newspaper articles on the "social question"

Our Instinctive Life (1908) Articles on human nature and party organization

Calvinism: Source and Stronghold of Our Constitutional Liberties (1874) History and principles of Calvinist political conviction

The South African Crisis (1900) Critique of British imperialism

Culture and Education

The Blurring of the Boundaries (1892) Pantheism as the hallmark of nineteenth-century European culture

Evolution (1899) The deleterious philosophy and consequences of evolutionary naturalism

Common Grace in Science (1904) Constructive statement on epistemology

Sphere Sovereignty (1880) Inaugural address at the Free University: the summa of Kuyper's thought

Selected Bibliography