Quote by Abraham Kuyper
“It is a symptom of spiritual poverty if the church of Christ is afraid to address the burning problems of the day… every burning problem, after all, and above all the social problem of the working classes, arises from dire needs, wretched conditions, and painful woes, and therefore calls for the healing balm on a hurting social wound. How could one conceive of a church of Christ that had no heart for such suffering and had that did not feel the urge to let her Savior shine in this area with the majesty of his redeeming love?”
― Abraham Kuyper ,
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Abraham Kuijper, generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905.
In May 1862 he was declared eligible for the ministry and 1863 he accepted a call to become minister for the Dutch Reformed Church for the town of Beesd. Around 1866 he began to sympathize with the orthodox tendency within the Dutch Reformed Church. He was inspired by the simple reformed faith of Pietje Balthus, a farmer's wife. He began to oppose the centralization in the church, the role of the King and began to plead for the separation of church and state.
In North America, Kuyper's political and theological views have had a significant impact, especially in the Reformed community. He is considered the father of Dutch Neo-Calvinism and had considerable influence on the thought of philosopher Herman Dooyeweer