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To mark the centennial anniversary of Abraham Kuypers Stone
Lectures at
Princeton University and to commemorate his lifetime
achievements, three
large gatherings were convened at different points throughout
the year 1998.
The first and largest (nearly 500 people) took place at
Princeton Theological
Seminary in February of 1998, the papers presented at which have
since beenpublished under the title Religion, Pluralism, and Public
Life: Abraham
Kuypers Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (Eerdmans, 2000),
edited by
Luis Lugo. The second took place in the Netherlands at the Free
University of
Amsterdam in June of 1998. The third (over 300 people) took
place at Calvin
College in October of 1998 and was titled A Century of Christian
Social
Teaching: The Legacy of Leo XIII and Abraham Kuyper. The year
1998 also
witnessed the publication of two landmark texts on Abraham
Kuyper: The
first, Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Eerdmans), edited by
James
Bratt, was a collection and translation of his most seminal
essays; the second
was Peter Heslams Creating a Christian Worldview (Eerdmans),
which ana-
lyzed each of Kuypers six lectures delivered at Princeton in
1898. John Bolts
A Free Church, A Holy Nation: Abraham Kuypers American Public
Theology
(Eerdmans, 2001) is the latest contribution to the growing body
of literature
on Abraham Kuypers intellectual legacy.
Of the three conferences held that year the one at Calvin
College was
unique not only because of its cosponsorsthe Acton Institute and
Calvin
Theological Seminarybut also because of the ecumenical
atmosphere that
surrounded it. (That conference, incidentally, took place almost
one hundred
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