Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 15

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remarkable literary product for a busy man to have produced when looked at from the point of view of mere quantity when its quality is considered, whether from the ;

point of view of richness of style, fulness of details, wideness of view, or force of presentation, it is simply a marvel.

There have been published in our day few discussions of civil and social questions more wide-minded and thoughtful, few devotional writings more penetrating and uplifting, few Among theological treatises more profound and stimulating. the more valuable of his theological writings should certainly be enumerated the numerous addresses which have been

given permanence in print, especially the Rectoral addresses delivered at the Free University at Amsterdam, several of

which attain the dimension of short treatises, and are furnished with an apparatus of notes, while retaining the grace Such, for example, are those of Dr. Kuyper's spoken style. on Present Bay Biblical Criticism, delivered in 1881, Calvinism and Art, delivered in 1888, and the tendency of Pantheiziiig thought towards the Obliteration of the Boundary Lines, and the confounding of things that differ, delivered Among his more considerable works in scientific in 1892. theology there fall to be mentioned especially, his edition of the Opuscala Theologica of Francis Junius, published in

1882, his copious commentary, in four volumes, on the Hei-

delberg Catechism, which bears the draceno, published 1892-95, his

on The

Work

of the

Holy

title

of

Spirit, in three

lished in 1888-89, and, doubtless

E

Voto Bor-

somewhat popular

treatise

volumes, pub-

we may say above

all,

his

Encyclopaedie der Heilige Grodgeleerdheid in three volumes,

published in 1894, of which the present volume presents a part in English.

This important work differs from other encyclopedias of It is marked by the stricttheology in several particulars. ness of

its scientific

with which pied.

It is

grasp upon is

its

conception of

proper province

marked not its

worked out

its

sphere and the

skill

discriminated and occu-

by the comprehensiveness of its and the thoroughness with which it details. It is especially marked by the

material, in its

is

less

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