Abraham Kuyper’s third lecture, Calvinism and Politics is about Calvinism as the source and the only way to maintain and protect liberty both from the threats of State tyranny and the popular concept of liberty. In this lecture, Kuyper touching politics, he wants to dispel the idea that confines Calvinism as purely an ecclesiastical and doctrinal movement. Consistent to the concept that politics is basically grounded on a certain religious or anti-religious idea, Calvinism shares similar character in providing political changes that affected “three historic lands of political freedom, the Netherlands, England and America” (p. 78). Kuyper quoting Bankroft, affirms that “a Calvinist is a fanatic for liberty, for in the moral warfare for freedom, his creed was a part of his army, and his most faithful ally in the battle’” (ibid.). Referencing Groenvan Prinsterer, he repeats: “‘In Calvinism lies the origin and guarantee of our constitutional liberties’” (ibid.). Such influence exert...
This course covers three areas considered important in Christian social thought: cultural, political, and with particular emphasis on economics. Studying the current issues under the identified three dimensions in relation to revelation, our goal is to appreciate, to critique, and to come up with a way of thinking and with a kind of activism based on Christian worldview.