Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 758 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1408 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 758 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1408 g
Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History
ISBN: 978-90-04-21139-1
Verlag: Brill
This bibliography of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), Dutch theologian, journalist, and politician, and above all prolific writer, is the result of a life-long research. Kuyper’s publications ranges from daily editorials in newspapers, via pamphlets on present-day issues and a 1000-page political program, to academic publications like an encyclopedia of theology. His works were ground laying for the neo-Calvinist tradition in the Netherlands, the United States, Asia, and Africa. This is the first bibliography of his works in English, and also the first all-encompassing bibliography, including all editions and translations. It has been organized chronologically and each item contains bibliographical data and apt information about contents and context. This is an indispensible academic tool for researchers of Kuyper and the neo-Calvinist tradition.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword: Being Public: On Abraham Kuyper and His Publications
Translator’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Key to Bibliographic Abbreviations
Key to Abbreviations of Libraries and Archives
Abraham Kuyper’s Life and Work: A Chronological Outline
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography, 1857–2009
Appendix 1: Published Indexes for Kuyper’s Works
Appendix 2: Catalogs and Bibliography of Kuyper's Works
Appendix 3: Sheet Music Based on Kuyper's Works
Appendix 4: Bilingual List of Organizations and Institutions Referenced in the Bibliography
Appendix 5: Periodicals Referenced in the Bibliography
Index
FOREWORD
BEING PUBLIC: ON ABRAHAM KUYPER
AND HIS PUBLICATIONS
George Harinck
I.
No person lives solely for himself. Apart from Abraham Kuyper, however, I know of no one who always, from the very earliest words he is known to have uttered until the very last, had a public in mind. For every subject that had his attention, he also recognized a public side. Even in matters relating to his most private life—his dealing with God in the intimate inner chamber of his heart—he reported to his reading public on an almost weekly basis throughout his working life. Kuyper was a public figure, not only in the sense that he belonged to the group of people who figured in the public domain, but also in the stricter sense that he could not do without an audience. For him the world was a stage; he lived for the footlights and believed that his roles and his public had been thrust upon him. As he admitted to one of his daughters in 1903: “My calling is high, my task is wonderful, and above my bed hangs a painting of the crucifixion, and when I look upon it, it seems as if the Lord asks me every night: ‘What is your struggle at my drinking cup?’ His service is so uplifting and wonderful.” That struggle and that service concerned the public expression of his personal religious conviction, and in the past two centuries the Netherlands has not seen anyone who has as forcefully pressed his conviction upon society as Abraham Kuyper did.
The oldest remaining manuscript in his hand illustrates that, even at an early age, Kuyper understood that the personal is public. As a boy of ten, he wrote on a piece of paper that on October 10, 1848, he had not been able to sleep because of the unrest he felt about the evil he had committed. At half past eleven that night he converted and resolved to “flee evil and pursue good.” This statement had the form of a declaration for the benefit of a third party. It was addressed to “the God in heaven.” There are many written statements that describe conversion experiences throughout the history of Christianity, including the nineteenth century. However, such statements are usually recorded for the benefit of the author’s own memory and, owing to their intimate nature, are typically closed off from the public domain. This statement, by contrast—signed with the words “I, Abraham Kuijper J. F. zoon”—betrays no fear of public disclosure. Although it certainly comes “from a humble heart,” it is a personal statement made for publication. It is an announcement, self-consciously addressed to “the king of kings,” the holder of the highest public office: Abraham Kuyper is a converted man, as noted.
Kuyper’s last publication, the devotional “Uw harte worde niet ontroerd” [Let not your heart be troubled] (John 14:1)—on the fitting subject of Jesus’s departure—was published in De Heraut on October 31, 1920, seventy-two years after the statement about his conversion. On the following November 4, four days before Kuyper’s death, his friend, the former governor-general A. W.F. Idenburg, visited him. Idenburg made notes about the last conversations he and Kuyper had, and on that day he noted: “I said that the Lord was a refuge and strength for him, a very present help in trouble [Psalm 46:1]. He nodded affirmatively and smiled happily. I asked, ‘Can I tell the people that you feel this way?’ He answered in the affirmative.” His daughters Henriette and Jo understood the hint, and in 1921 they published a book about their father’s final years, which can safely be described as the best-documented deathbed account written in Dutch during the twentieth century. In the book sixty-six pages are dedicated to the last twelve months of Kuyper’s life—twenty of these pages to the last six weeks alone. Henriette was frank about the reason for this publicity: “From my earliest youth I have had to learn that my father’s life vocation belonged to the Dutch people, and in the second instance belonged to his family. My father was
