Pro Rege: Living under Christ's Kingship, Volume 3 (Kuyper)

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Kuyper, Abraham

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576

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Abraham Kuyper believed that Jesus is King of all creation, making it absurd to distinguish between Christian life inside and outside the church. In previous volumes of Pro Rege, Kuyper examined Christ’s universal kingship and its implications for the life of the church and the family; in this third volume, he extends his analysis of Christ’s kingship and rule to areas of society not encompassed by the family and the church—specifically, culture and the arts, civil society, and government.

Contents

Editors’ Introduction
Volume Introduction by Rimmer de Vries and Jordan J. Ballor
Series IV: Christ’s Kingship and His Society

- An Independent Sphere
- From Creation
- Twofold Demand
- Family and Society
- Fear and Danger
- The Expansion of Life
- The Expansion of the Terrain
- Society and the Individual
- Custom and Habit
- Gifted Leaders
- The Power of the Word
- Money
- Play
- The Woman
- Private Initiative
- The Government
- The Christian Church
- Christian Schools
- Christian Organizations
- Public Opinion
- Good and Evil Spirits
- The Final Victory

Series V: Christ’s Kingship in the State

- The Confusion of Speech
- The Division Into States
- The Unity of the Human Race
- The Course of History
- The Rulers
- The Law
- Political Parties
- Colonial Possessions
- Internationalism
- The Relationship between the States
- The Christian Land

Series VI: Christ’s Kingship and Knowledge

- Our Human Knowledge
- Jesus’ Knowledge
- Science as a Power
- Reflection
- The Truth
- Thinking God’s Thoughts after Him
- The Secret Things of God
- The Secret Things of God (2)
- The Secret Things of God (3)
- The Freeing of the Mind
- Magesty

Series VII: The Kingship of Christ and ArtConclusion

- A Gift of God
- The Ideal of the Practical
- The Beautiful
- The Mystery of Beauty
- Our Awareness of Beauty
- Beauty and Sin
- The Origin of Beauty
- Beauty in Christ
- The Sublime and Worship
- Art and Religion

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.