Tag: Culture and Christianity

Abraham Kuyper as a critic of culture – The evolution case

There are many areas where we can appreciate Kuyper’s criticism of culture. One of those areas is his interaction between science and theology, and more specifically, science with biblical revelation. Kuyper debated evolution in his 1899 rectoral oration at the Free University of Amsterdam. He criticized a series of features of Darwin’s theory of evolution. These objections include the theory’s features of naturalism, its mechanistic understanding of the world, its atheistic worldview, and its a-teleological characteristic. Without a doubt, the theory of evolution has been one of the most controversial topics for modern Christians. Kuyper’s article ‘evolution’ not only shows …

Whistle while you work

I remember one of my challenging internships while in Seminary. How could I forget it? The workload was too much, something that led me to organize a volunteer group. Every week I needed to do a series of regular tasks, such as organizing and distributing printed material, writing projects, and the list goes on. After several weeks of hard work, it was difficult to bear the workload. The problem was not my busy schedule itself or the number of assigned tasks, but the large and complex process to complete those tasks. One single project could even take weeks before it …

Big on Newbigin

In a workshop I attended a couple of years ago, the speaker asked his audience some questions about Christian leadership. After participants answered with a variety of interesting responses, the speaker offered his definition of a leader. Without entering into details, I found myself struggling with this speaker’s definition of a Christian leader: everything he said reminded me of a corporate boss. I have to accept that at the end, a boss is kind of a leader. What I cannot accept, however, is that this kind of leadership is how Scripture depicts an “after God’s own heart” leader. Unlike other …