Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology
The
Abraham
Kuyper
Center
for Public Theology was established at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2002 and exists to foster scholarly interest both in the work of Abraham Kuyper and in the Neo-Calvinist tradition of thought which he expounded in the Stone Lectures on Calvinism that he gave at Princeton in 1898.
The Center sponsors an annual Abraham Kuyper Prize, awarded to someone whose outstanding contribution to their chosen sphere reflects the ideas and values characteristic of the Neo-Calvinist vision of religious engagement in matters of social, political and cultural significance.
In the spring of each year the Kuyper Prize Lecture is followed by the Center’s annual conference, organized around a specific theme, and including both invited plenary lectures and sessions devoted to selected paper proposals submitted.
A number of financial awards are available on a competitive basis to enable graduate students form anywhere in the world to participate in the annual conference.
The Kuyper Center Review
is a peer reviewed annual publication of new work on the topics and figures associated with Neo-Calvinism. Submissions are accepted at any time.
The Abraham Kuyper Collection
of Dutch Reformed Protestantism in housed in the Seminary’s Special Collections. It is open by appointment to qualified researchers and focuses on the theology and history of Dutch Reformed Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Center Highlights
The 2010 Kuyper Conference: "Common Grace and 'A Common Word'"
The Abraham Kuyper Center is now accepting paper proposals for the 2010 conference, which will explore the concept of common grace with a view to uncovering the theological role it might have in furthering the aspirations of A Common Word Between Us and You, a 2007 document affirming the common ground that exists between Christianity and Islam. Proposals are invited in the disciplines of theology, religious studies, history, philosophy and the social sciences on any aspect of the conference theme. Papers that aim to extend the dialogue to include Judaism in all its varieties are especially welcome.
The 2010 Kuyper Prize Lecture
The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Kuyper Prize, Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. The upcoming Kuyper Conference will open with his lecture.
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