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To mark the centennial anniversary of Abraham Kuypers Stone Lectures at
Princeton University and to commemorate his lifetime achievements, three
large gatherings were convened at different points throughout the year 1998.
The first and largest (nearly 500 people) took place at Princeton Theological
Seminary in February of 1998, the papers presented at which have since beenpublished under the title Religion, Pluralism, and Public Life: Abraham
Kuypers Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (Eerdmans, 2000), edited by
Luis Lugo. The second took place in the Netherlands at the Free University of
Amsterdam in June of 1998. The third (over 300 people) took place at Calvin
College in October of 1998 and was titled A Century of Christian Social
Teaching: The Legacy of Leo XIII and Abraham Kuyper. The year 1998 also
witnessed the publication of two landmark texts on Abraham Kuyper: The
first, Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Eerdmans), edited by James
Bratt, was a collection and translation of his most seminal essays; the second
was Peter Heslams Creating a Christian Worldview (Eerdmans), which ana-
lyzed each of Kuypers six lectures delivered at Princeton in 1898. John Bolts
A Free Church, A Holy Nation: Abraham Kuypers American Public Theology
(Eerdmans, 2001) is the latest contribution to the growing body of literature
on Abraham Kuypers intellectual legacy.
Of the three conferences held that year the one at Calvin College was
unique not only because of its cosponsorsthe Acton Institute and Calvin
Theological Seminarybut also because of the ecumenical atmosphere that
surrounded it. (That conference, incidentally, took place almost one hundred
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