Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 11

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

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has grown to a very considerable voluminousness, and touches upon nearly the whole circle of civil and ecclesiastical inter-

present-day Netherlands.

ests of the

All that exists

rather superficial and not very correct sketch of his

life

is

a

and

opinions from the pen of Jhr. Mr, Witsius H. de Savornin

Lohman.^ It was written, unhappily, nearly ten years ago, and Dr. Kuyper has not ceased to live and move in the meanwhile and its greater part is devoted, naturally, to an account of Dr. Ku3^per's political program as leader ;

of the Anti-revolutionar}^ party. It may be sup]3lemented, however, from the theological side from the sympathetic and very informing account to be found in Dr. Hermann Bavinck's paper on Recent Dogmatic Thought i?i the Netherlands^

which appeared a few years ago

Presbyterian and Reformed Review.^ profitably be compared,

in the

With

by those who

pages of The

this there

like

to

may

hear both

on The NetherlandReformed Church of the Present by Professor H. G. Klein of Utrecht, which are buried in the columns of a Reformed journal which used to be published in Austria,^ while Dr. Kuyper himself has lifted the veil from many of his earlier experiences in a delightful booklet which sides of a question, the series of papers ish

he appropriately

calls

Confidences.'^

With

these references

may

exonerate myself from attempting more here than to suggest the outlines of his work on the theological side. I

Dr. Kuyper was born in 1837, and received his scholastic training at Ley den, as a student of literature and theology. He obtained his theological doctorate in 1863, with a treatise

on the idea of the Church in Calvin and a Lasco. his university career,

when he

During

sat at the feet of Scholten (at

1 It was published as one of the issues of the series entitled Mannen van Beteekenis in Onze Dagen, edited by Dr. E. J. Pijzel, and published at Haarlem by H. D. Tjeenk Williuk. It is a pamphlet of 72 pages, and

appeared

in 1889. Issue of April, 1892, Vol. III. pp. 209 sq. 3 Evangelisch lieformirte Blaetter mis Oesterreich (Kuttelberg, Oesterr. Schlesien, 1891 ; Vol. I. pp. 9 seq.). 2

* Confidentie : Schrijven aan den weled. Heer J. H. van der Linden, door Dr. A. Kuyper (Amsterdam Hoveker en Zoon, 1873). Additional sources of information are given by both Dr. Bavinck and Dr. Klein. :

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