RT Review
T1 [Rezension von: Abraham Kuyper]
JF A journal of church and state
VO 57
IS 2
SP 378
OP 379
A1 Wood, John Halsey
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1757179496
AB The nineteenth century was one of great system builders, and although we are perhaps more familiar with British or German architects, James Bratt examines for us Abraham Kuyper's efforts to construct a Dutch society for modernity, an atlas for the Dutch Calvinist world. What made Kuyper so remarkable was his equally prodigious talents at intellectual system-building, organizational founding, and grassroots mobilizing. These talents propelled him into numerous leading roles: pastor, university founder and professor of theology, newspaper publisher, leader of a secession church, spiritual writer, political party organizer and parliamentarian, and eventually prime minister of the Netherlands. Any of these roles would make him of interest; all of them combined make Kuyper a monumental figure, as well as a challenge for a historian. James Bratt has succeeded very well in meeting that challenge ...
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/csv015