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God's Renaissance Man: Abraham Kuyper Paperback – June 1, 2000

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Like his predecessors in church history, Kuyper was a person of massive intelligence, immense learning, terrific energy, and zealous faith. He nevertheless received great adulation from his beloved kleine luyden(little people) of the working and lower middle classes, many of whom struggled to survive economically and few of whom could afford a higher education. Throughout his long career as a pastor, journalist, educator and political leader, Kuyper maintained close contact with the common people and communicated with them effectively, even though he was far above them in intellect and formal learning.
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  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Evangelical Press
  4. Publication date
    June 1, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    5.47 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0852344465
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0852344460
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Evangelical Press; First Edition (June 1, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0852344465
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0852344460
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.47 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Patricia C. Darnell
4.0 out of 5 stars Every Christian Should Know about Abraham Kuyper — and This Book Makes an Excellent Introduction
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This book provides an excellent summary of the life of one of the most important Christian theologians and statesmen of the last millennium. The ideas and principles he re-discovered and articulated continue to resonate in many fields throughout the west. The author provides a good summary of his life and convictions.
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Jacob Aitken
5.0 out of 5 stars My Heart for Thy Cause
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2004
McGoldrick has given the church a valuable introduction for what one may hope to be a Kuyper revival. *God's Renaissance Man* may be a fitting title for the life and work of a politician, preacher, theologian, and journalist--areas where Kuyper could have easily set the standard. The book begins by giving his early life, his internal struggles with liberalism at college, his conversion to the Reformed Faith in his first pastorate, and the public battles in which he was the center for the rest of his life.
The Parts that I found most interesting were the ones on his life at college (including his temporary loss of rational control, only to be regained by reading classic literature), his wars with liberalism, and his founding of a new denomination. McGoldrick either loses me, or attempts to cover too much too fast at the end of the book. Nevertheless, that did not mar the book at all, it just pointed the need for more work on Kuyper. Other interesting parts of the book show Kuyper's foundational thoughts concerning the presuppositionalist mode of apologetics. An example, there are no neutral men, for faith is the foundation of all thought, especially scientific thought; Faith precedes the examination of evidence. Granted, there are more and possibly better examples of his apologetic. McGoldrick also doesn't hide the reader from Kuyper's faults, and those of his immediate followers. Many have taken his cultural mandate to the extreme that evangelism is neglected, although this was not true of Kuyper. His supralapsarianism, if I am correct, will cause some in the Reformed camp to stop and question (even I am not so sure). Although I am not a paedo-baptist, I can understand where my Presbyterian and paedobaptistic friends depart company with Kuyper here, as his view of Baptism was not in the mainstream of Reformed thought. Nevertheless, the admission of these faults show the humanity of Kuyper and the honesty of McGoldrick--both of which we may imitate.
Kuyper was a man for his time and provided us many examples: on how to leave a denomination, over how to make Christ lord over all, and on how to combat liberals. His theology may be summed up in: "There is not one square inch where God does not cry, 'Mine!'" May this book be a springboard for a Kuyperian revolution.
One last item: this book has an excellent bibliography for further study, a biblio of say, 5 pages.
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