Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 10

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food of hundreds of Imngiy souls, whose prelections in the Free University are building up a race of theologians imbued with the historical no less than the sj^stematic spirit, and to whose writings men of all parties look for light and inspiration

;

Church and State

in fine, as a force in

principles

in

whose arm

trust with a

who share his fundamental well-founded hope of victory, Dr. Kuyper is probably to-day the most considerable figure in both political and ecclesiastiAs long as thirteen years ago Dr. Johannes cal Holland.

those

upon the Church

Gloel, looking in

without, thought

it

not too

was the best known name

much

life

of

Holland from

to say that Dr. Kuyper's

in the land

;

^

and though

in the

interval friends have been lost, yet doubtless also friends have been made, and assuredly the sharp conflicts which

have marked these years have not lessened the conspicuousIt is certainly high ness of the central figure in them all.

we should make the acquaintance of such a man America. The present volume will, naturally, reveal him

time that

in to

a fragment

us on one side only of his multiform activity. It is of his scientific theological work which it gives us

;

indeed,

it is only a fragment of one of his theothough possibly thus far his most considerable

to speak literally,

logical works,

But the reader will not contribution to theological science. to perceive, even in this fragment, evidence of those

fail

which have made its author the leader of men the depth of his insight, the breadth of his is, of his method, the comprehensivethoroughness the outlook,

qualities

—

which he

ness of his survey, the intensity of his conviction, the eloquence of his language, the directness of his style, the pith of his illustrations, the force, completeness, win-

and wealth

ningness of his presentation. For anything like a complete estimate of Dr. Kuyper's powers and performance there would be needed a tolerably

thorough acquaintance with the whole political and religious life of Holland during the last third of the nineteenth cenIt would even be something of a task to undertake a tury. study of his mind and work in his literary product, which 1

Hollands kirchliches Leben, "Wtirtemberg, 1885.

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