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What is Meant by “Christianizing” What Kuyper and Bavinck meant by the odd, non-biblical, non-creedal term “Christianizing,” was not that the world becomes Christian. That the world becomes Christian would mean that all the life of all the nations would be obedience to the law of God, in love for G
Basic to the project of Christianizing the world is the conviction that the ungodly are favorably inclined to the project, that the ungodly regard the cultural-Calvinists as friends, indeed as indispensable fellow workers in the grand project of creating a good, even godly earthly kingdom of peace a
The advocates of Christianizing the world pit themselves against God. In his awful but just judgment, God is at work hardening the world in its willful ungodliness, so that the world develops in sin, filling the cup of its iniquity. The cultural Calvinists oppose this work of God, attempting to Chri
Reformed Worldview them. The culture of the ungodly opposes the culture of the godly. In Jesus Christ, "light is come into the world" in the holy lives of the saints, and the men and women of darkness hate the light (John 3:19,20). The Reformed worldview understands that, carrying out His original p
First of all, I wish to make a remark about the formulation of my subject. You will have noticed that I do not speak on “religion and culture,” but definitely on “the Christian and culture.” Intentionally I preferred this formulation. Dr. Abraham Kuyper would, no doubt, have preferred to speak on “C
It is the calling of those who bring the gospel not to transport culture, but to transport gospel. Part of the beauty of the diversity of the church is seen in the culture of God's people. It is the task of every missionary to take special care not to rape the culture of the people under the pretens
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal Vol. 43, No. 2 106 and a carrying out of Christ’s relation to culture. The author begins the book with an analysis of Niebuhr’s description of various views that have been promoted through- out the ages concerning the relation of Christ to culture. These views
Christianity overcame paganism by a process of absorption, turning pagan festivals into Christian festivals, pagan temples into churches, and pagan sanctuaries into cemeteries.
There are two movements in western Christian nations today which go hand in hand. On the one hand, efforts are being made to erase all references to Christianity from national life; on the other hand there is a return to paganism. C. S. Lewis even argues that the entire feminist movement and especia
Engelsma does not like the term “culture,” he says that the Christian school is, “instrumental in producing a Reformed culture.” The school does this not by helping to set up a carnal kingdom, but by teaching the children to live every day of their lives, “in obedience to the law of God and to God’s