James D. Bratt's biography of Abraham Kuyper, published by Eerdmans in its Library of Religious Biography series, is the first full length English language life of Kuyper, tracing his work as a Reformed minister, journalist, political leader and educational founder, including his 1880 founding of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam as the institutional expression of the neo Calvinist theology Kuyper spent his career developing.
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AuthorJames D. Bratt
PublisherEerdmans
Publication Year2013
Source Typeacademic biography
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Reliability Tier1
An Eerdmans academic biography by James D. Bratt, a historian of American religion, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university press religious biographies, used here for the founding's place in Kuyper's wider neo Calvinist program, corroborated by VU Amsterdam's own institutional history. Connections
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This source names Amsterdam directly: "founding of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam as the institutional expression of the neo Calvinist theology Kuyper spent his career developing."
Source James D. Bratt, Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat (Eerdmans, 2013)James D. Bratt
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