Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 14

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

xvi Christianity,

He

ing.

and the people

of

God have

flocked to

its

lead-

cannot, indeed, be credited with the creation of

the Reformed party in the Cliurch, any more than of the As the year 1840, Anti-revolutionary party in the State. elected the Lower Chamwas to Prinsterer van when Groen

ber of the States General,

day of the Groen and

may

be accounted the formal birth-

latter,

so the year 1842,

his six

companions was

when

the Address of

laid before the

Synod

of

the Netherlandish Reformed Church, praying for the main-

tenance of the rights of the Reformed Confession against the Groningen teaching, may be thought of as the formal birthday of the former. But as it is he who has organized and compacted the Anti-revolutionary party and led it to its present position of power, so all

it is

whom is due above Reformed tendency in Holland, and to whom are he to

others the present strength of the

the religious

life

and thought

of

hope to-day the eyes of all who truly love the Word of God and the principles of the Reformed religion, that "sterling silver," "fine gold," "pure nard," of Chris-

turned in

—

he himself phrases it. In the prosecution of his self-chosen task of recovering

tianity, as

for the

Word

of

God and

the princijDles of the Reformed

and religious life of Kuyper has made the most vigorous every means of reaching the minds and

religion their rightful place in the civil

the Netherlands, Dr.

and

versatile use of

He

hearts of the people.

edits the

made

daily political paper,

power in the weekly religious paper, I>e Heraut^ and discusses in its columns in the most thorough way all live He is serving the State as topics of theology and religion.

De Standaard, which he land.

He

has

a veritable

edits the

Lower Chamber of the States General. He is serving the Church as Professor of Dogmatics in the theoIt is a logical faculty of the Free University at Amsterdam. matter of course that he has made the freest use also of occaa

member

of the

sional discussion

and

scientific presentation.

Political jDam-

on ecclesiastical topics pen, have poured from the

phlets, devotional treatises, studies

and theological themes, from his press in an almost unbroken stream.

It is

a

somewhat

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