“A Squeezed Out Lemon Peel”: Abraham Kuyper on Modernism

It will come as no surprise that theological modernism and Abraham Kuyper do not get on. Famously, Kuyper spoke of modernism as “a fata morgana in the Christian domain.” Kuyper gave the Fata Morgana speech at various occasions, and made the term “modernism” (modernisme) current at the time. The text...

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Main Author: Molendijk, Arie L. 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2011
In: Church history and religious culture
Year: 2011, Volume: 91, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 396-411
Further subjects:B Abraham Kuyper modernism Protestant liberalism history of Dutch Protestantism and Neo-Calvinism history of theology nineteenth-century thought
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