This is his much-respected study that confessedly builds on the work of Calvin, Owen and Kuyper and also relates in places to the contemporary scene. |
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Kuyper wanted to awaken the church from what he viewed as its pietistic slumber. |
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Theologically, many Protestants have embraced the parish model as having roots in a Reformed view of eschatology, a la Abraham Kuyper or Francis Schaeffer. |
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Each of those more recent works served to furnish the Anglophonic world with more direct access to Kuyper and offered some constructive criticism. |
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All this should not be considered to be a relativization of the problematic character of the dividedness of the church, something of which Kuyper has been accused. |
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