Pro Rege: Living under Christ's Kingship, Volume 1 (Kuyper)

Description

How do Christians bridge the divide between our lives inside and outside the church?

Abraham Kuyper believed that a healthy view of Jesus' kingship was essential to closing that gap. In Pro Rege, Kuyper shows how the kingship of Christ affects all areas of life, building upon the work he began in Common Grace. In this first volume, Kuyper examines how the kingdom of Satan opposes, undermines, and obscures the kingship of Christ. He follows this by laying out the Scriptural foundation for the kingship of Christ and beginning to uncover its implications for all of creation.

Contents

• Editors’ Introduction by John Kok and Nelson D. Kloosterman
• Volume Introduction by Clifford Anderson
• Series I: The Darkening of Christ’s Kingship 

• • Christ and Muhammad
  • Darkening among Christian Nations
  • Darkening in the Church
  • The General Apostasy
  • Humanity Is Great
  • The Religious Sense Diminished
  • Distracted Thinking
  • The Great World Cities
  • The Queen of the World
  • The Power of Money
  • The Dominion of Art

• Series II: The Undermining of Christ’s Kingship 

• • By the Grace of God
  • Humanity’s Dominion over Nature
  • Paradise No Longer
  • Miracles
  • The Miracles of Christ
  • The Power Given to Us
  • The Increase in Our Power
  • More Shrewd in Dealing with Their Own Generation
  • The World of the Spirits
  • The Influence of the Spirit World
  • Christ and Satan
  • The Wisdom of the World
  • Science in Christian Countries
  • Universalism
  • Spiritual Unity
  • The Course of the Centuries

• Series III: The Kingship of Christ according to Scripture 

• • The Notion of King
  • Dominion
  • Derived Authority
  • No Spiritualization
  • Universally Human
  • The Second Adam
  • Both Head and King
  • The Curse on Capernaum
  • The Spirit Subjected to Him
  • King as Mediator
  • The Messiah
  • King of Israel
  • John the Baptist
  • Triumph of the Higher Order
  • Connection with Life
  • A Temporary Situation
  • The Existing Order Maintained
  • The Salvation of the World
  • Preparation, Establishment, Development, and Consummation
  • The Return of the King
  • The Revelation on Patmos
  • The Two Kingdoms
  • Mystical and Instrumental
  • The Übermensch
  • Knowledge and Authority
  • Divine Capacity
  • The Holy Spirit
  • Summary

About the Editors

Jordan J. Ballor (ThD, University of Zurich; PhD, Calvin Theological Seminary) is a research fellow at the Acton Institute and serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets and Morality. He is also associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary.

Melvin Flikkema (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is Senior Advisor at the Acton Institute. He coordinated the translation of the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. He was previously the Provost of Kuyper College.

About the Author

Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was one of the most extraordinary individuals of his time. A prolific intellectual and theologian, he founded the Free University in Amsterdam and was instrumental in the development of Neo-Calvinism. He was also an active politician, serving as a member of Parliament in the Netherlands beginning in 1874 and serving as Prime Minister from 1901 to 1905.

At this intersection of church and state, he devoted much of his writing towards developing a public theology. His passion was to faithfully understand and engage culture through a Christian worldview. The most famous example is his articulation of the doctrine of common grace. His work has influenced countless others, including Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, and Alvin Plantinga.