Dominee abraham kuyper biography
Many Sons Had Father Abraham – Reformed Journal.
Abraham Kuyper
Dutch prime minister and theologian (1837–1920)
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Dominee abraham kuyper biography
For other people of the same name, see Kuiper. For the American college, see Kuyper College.
Abraham Kuyper (KY-pər, Dutch:[ˈaːbraːɦɑmˈkœypər]; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist.
He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upon its foundation became the second largest Reformed denomination in the country behind the state-supported Dutch Reformed Church.
In addition, he founded the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and a newspaper.
In religious affairs, he sought to adapt the Dutch Reformed Church to challenges posed by the loss of state financial aid and by increasing religious pluralism in the wake of splits that the church had undergone in the 19th century, rising Dutch nationalism, and the Arminian religious reviv