Shortly after this month's uprising in Washington, DC, journalist Catherine Stewart published this piece in
The New York Times in which Abraham Kuyper's name came up:
The Roots of Josh Hawley's Rage. I have just posted a response here:
Misreading Kuyper? Stewart, Hawley, and The New York Times. An excerpt follows:
Enlisting Kuyper into the contemporary North American culture war has a certain plausibility, because there really are battles to be waged in the larger culture. . . . However, and this ought not to be forgotten, the antithesis between belief and unbelief does not run quite so tidily between different groups of people. Any effort to assess in a spiritually discerning way the true character of the various ideological visions and illusions on offer cannot be content to point fingers. On the contrary, we must begin within ourselves. True knowledge begins with self-knowledge, and without the latter, our efforts to remove the speck from our neighbour’s eye will be unpersuasive.
Read the entire article here.
Thank you David. In my estimation, some in our number run the antithesis too far. Yes, you can only be saved in Christ, or not, there is no middle ground. You can believe that God is Creator or not, etc. But having these presuppositions right does not guarantee we will be right about much else. Perhaps the confidence that we are right on the basic worldview subjects may lead us to ignore positions that come from those holding a different worldview.
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