A. When did the CRC begin?

B. Christian Education— Key issues in the debate:

C. The Three Minds

1857?

Reformation?

Pentecost?

How about Abraham?

Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, 33.

Parental Responsibility for Children Covenant Community’s Responsibility for its Children Christ is Lord of all of Life (no privatization of piety) Mission responsibility Church---World Relation Christian Liberty

Public Education as established civil religion?

Christian education as anti-Constantinian(and therefore MORE American?)

To Americanize . . . ?

or not . . . ?

(or how) ?

From James Bratt,

Dutch Calvinism in Modern America.

Taken from Henry Zwaanstra, Reformed Thought and Experience in a New World

(1973)

Progressive-Americanizing

Antithetical-Confessional

Strong: RCA—Hope College---Western Seminary; The Leader

Lite: (Bratt’s “Positive Calvinists”); “common grace”;

Johannes Groen

Kuyperian Calvinists: Separate Christian Organizations in all areas

Confessional Reformed---Church oriented; Foppe Ten Hoor

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Antithetical

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“[A “progressive” journal, The Leader] showed hostility toward both Catholicism and the CRC’s Christian school movement, sometimes in the same breath. Touched with the millennial optimism of the time, The Leader perceived the world as being less locked in a fundamental tension with the church than flailing in the latter stages of a struggle that Christianity was sure to win.”