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"A Free Church, a Holy Nation develops the thought of the great Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper into a charter for North American evangelicals engaged in today's cultural battles. Though Kuyper's example has been referred to frequently in recent years by evangelical leaders like Charles Colson, this work by John Bolt is the first comprehensive statement of Kuyper's public theology directly applied to contemporary Christian political activism in the United States.".
"In addition to considering such key issues as poverty, wealth and power, theocracy and pluralism, civil religion, the culture wars and political cooperation between evangelicals and Roman Catholics. Bolt also draws extended comparisons between Kuyper's views and the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord John Acton, Pope Leo XIII, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Jonathan Edwards.
A distinctive feature of this study is its focus on the rhetorical, poetic character of Kuyper's public theology and practice as a political leader. Bolt shows how focusing on Kuyper's rhetorical and mythopoetic perspective, rather than on his theological and philosophical ideas, provides contemporary evangelicals with a more credible and effective theology for the public square."--BOOK JACKET.
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A Free Church, a Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper's American Public Theology
January 2001, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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"For Abraham Kuyper, the great enemy of the Christian faith in the world of the late nineteenth century was modernism, the powerful, world-shaping vision of human autonomy and scientific reason fashioned by the great thinkers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment."
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