Abraham Kuyper – an anachronism whilst he lived, forgotten in his generation but speaking to our today

Abraham Kuyper (b.1837, d.1920) is described in a recent publication “as one of those rare intellectuals who actually led a popular movement. He thought it not enough just to articulate a worldview but built the organisations needed to implement it.” He is variously described as a theologian, philosopher, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, reformer and statesman. He founded a university, founded two newspapers (in which he authored thousands of articles on politics, literature, science and art), founded a political party and broke from the State religion in forming a religious denomination. He lectured famously in the United States and served notably as prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905.