James Bratt’s following words could summarize one of the goals Abraham Kuyper achieved as a Christian thinker. Kuyper “upgrade[d] Calvinism from an old dogma to an active life, to put Modernist methods to orthodox ends, and to redefine the church to make it fit, and challenge, the contemporary world” (p. 42). I concur. However, how did Kuyper do it in theoretical terms? In trying to answer the former question, I will look to another Bratt’s work on Kuyper. One of the issues that emerges from the chapters “Modernism” and “Conservatism & Orthodoxy” in James Bratt’s Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader is …
