![]() ‘I recorded the feats of the man who is still regarded as the best runner, perhaps the best pro football player of all time.’.‘Which quality among match officials is respected most by tennis pros?’.‘Some of the top examples from recent years, joined by a new name on the pro and college sports scenes.’.‘If my son ever gets the chance to play football as a pro, I'd advise him to do it that way.’.‘According to NCAA bylaws, a student athlete is allowed to be a pro in one sport while maintaining amateur status in another.’.‘That was good enough to beat every man in a field containing a mix of former tour professionals, club pros and plus-handicap amateurs.’.‘Most of the pros and big-time athletes that were doing juice were monitored by a doctor at some point and had some clean roids to use.’.‘Sports staffs now call on country club pros to serve as tennis instructors.’.‘The sites usually list bios and name some of the professional designations that qualified pros have.’.‘Does he protest when baseball or tennis players become pros right after high school?’.He was previously the Provost of Kuyper College. He coordinated the translation of the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. Melvin Flikkema (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is Senior Advisor at the Acton Institute. He is also associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary. 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. His work has influenced countless others, including Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, and Alvin Plantinga. The most famous example is his articulation of the doctrine of common grace. His passion was to faithfully understand and engage culture through a Christian worldview. 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.Īt this intersection of church and state, he devoted much of his writing towards developing a public theology. A prolific intellectual and theologian, he founded the Free University in Amsterdam and was instrumental in the development of Neo-Calvinism. Steven Garber, Principal, The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & CultureĪbraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was one of the most extraordinary individuals of his time. Theologically rich, biblically grounded, Kuyper was passionately committed to helping ordinary people in ordinary places understand the meaning of their faith for life, always speaking to “the real world in which most people live their daily lives.” Pro Rege is a masterpiece, and my hope is that people all over the world will become his students, entering into his wisdom about the perennial challenge of understanding the world and our place in it. With historical and sociological insight, with psychological and philosophical attentiveness, reading the world as he read the Word, he set forth an exhaustively-imagined account of the sovereignty of God over all things in heaven and on earth. While our moment in history has its complex, even immense challenges, the great gift of Kuyper’s magisterial work is the profound way that he took on these same questions in his time and place. ![]() Vincent Bacote, Associate professor of theology and director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College In the early years of the 21st century, full as they are of pluralization, secularization, and globalization, we feel certain that a biblically-born faith has never been more difficult to work out in the public life of the world. This first volume creates great anticipation for the publication of the remaining translations and offers the church an insightful and challenging series of reflections that have relevance far beyond Kuyper's day. Gideon Strauss, Associate professor of worldview studies, Institute for Christian Studies senior fellow, The Center for Public Justice This English translation of the first volume of Kuyper's Pro Rege unveils for us his mature thinking on the multiple dimensions of Christ's reign in the face of gifts and challenges of the modern world. ![]() For me Kuyper's reflections raise one big question, and it is a question of practice: What does it mean to follow Jesus here, now? In retrospect some of his moves seem obviously misguided, others startlingly prescient. In Pro Rege we see Kuyper trying to figure out what it means to follow Jesus in his place and time: the Netherlands of the late 19th and early 20th century. Praise for Pro Rege As we gain access to a growing volume of the writings of Abraham Kuyper in English translation we are ever more able to consider his life and work as an intriguing case study in discipleship.
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