Matthew Kaemingk
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“For Kuyper, ideological hegemony was not merely irrational—it was blasphemous. For, Kuyper declared, whenever religious freedom is crushed, “God’s name” is “robbed of its splendor.”28”
― Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
― Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
“Admitting that one’s life rested on some sort of faith was, in Kuyper’s mind, simply a matter of intellectual honesty. To deny faith’s role, to claim pure objectivity and rationality, was a “culpable blindfolding” of the self (Encyclopedia, 152). Moderns who declared that they could transcend the superstitions of faith and ground their thought “exclusively upon the action of the senses” were, according to Kuyper, “entirely mistaken, and allow themselves a leap to which they have no right” (Encyclopedia, 132). Every system of human thought pivoted on some deep fulcrum,”
― Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
― Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
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