In Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader, James Bratt cleans the image of Kuyper (1837-1920) from long-held misconceptions and caricatures. One of the aspects Bratt highlights is the multivocal character of Kuyper’s career: state leader, theologian, politician, scholar, and journalist. If we want to interpret Kuyper’s writings correctly, a perspective informed by an accurate social-historical context of Kuyper’s life is a must. Part of the problem arises from the fact that Kuyper “was a man of many voices. He was multivocal in the number of fields in which he spoke: church and theology, politics, and society, culture and education, international affairs and …