Reformed theology in a secular age with Drs. Jessica and Robert Joustra
In this episode, I am joined by my Drs. Jessica and Robert Joustra, co-editors of a new volume called Calvinism for a Secular Age: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures. Today, we talk about Kuyper’s influence and a Reformed approach to our secular age.
Meet Jessica:
Jessica Joustra (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary and the Free University of Amsterdam) is assistant professor of religion and theology at Redeemer University and an associate researcher at the Neo-Calvinist Research Institute at the Theological University of Kampen (NL). She is an editor and translator of Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics and associate editor for the Bavinck Review.
Meet Robert:
Robert J. Joustra (PhD, University of Bath) is associate professor of politics and international studies and the founding director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University College. He is the author of The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom and the coauthor of The Church’s Social Responsibility, The Persecuted Church, How to Survive the Apocalypse, and God and the Global Order.
Resources:
- Calvinism for a Secular Age by Jessica and Robert Joustra
- Collected Works of Public Theology by Abraham Kuyper
- Abraham Kuyper by James Bratt
- Abraham Kuyper: An Introduction by Richard Mouw
- To Be Near unto God by Abraham Kuyper
- Honey from the Rock by Abraham Kuyper
- Christ and Culture by Klaas Schilder
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