Klaas Schilder (1890–1952) was a prominent Dutch Reformed theologian in the early twentieth century, first as a pastor and then as a professor. While his fame spread to North America in the 1940s, he is mostly forgotten today. In The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings, readers will rediscover this important Dutch theologian.
Working in the tradition of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck, Schilder applies Dutch Neo-Calvinism to the twentieth century. This includes secularism, the rise and influence of Karl Barth, opposition to Nazism, and the relation between the church and society. The Klaas Schilder Reader contextualizes his work and furthers the neo-Calvinist tradition.
608 pages.
- General Introduction
- Part I: American Lectures (1939)
- Common Grace
- The Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace
- Christian Freedom
- Christ and Biblical History
- The Pluriformity of the Church
- Faith and Mysticism
- Part II: Common Grace and Culture
- Eros or Christ (1925)
- Culture and Common Grace (1933)
- Dr. Kuyper on Calvinism (1937)
- “No” to Natural Theology (1939)
- Created in the Image of God (1939)
- Part III: The Church
- The Judgement Begins at the House of God (1918)
- The Church in the World: Fleeing and Flying (1923)
- Church and Utopia: Pentecost in Your Backyard (1931)
- The Church Locked Up: A Critique of Sphere Sovereignty (1932)
- The Church and Salvation: Coetus et Congregatio (1932)
- Theses on the Church (1935)
- I Believe a Holy, Catholic, Christian Church, the Communion of Saints: Lecture on the Creed (1935)
- On Being or Becoming the Church (1939)
- No Salvation Outside of the Church (1948)
- Part IV: Karl Barth
- The Paradox in Religion (1927)
- On a Theology of Crisis (1929)
- Barthianism and Secularization (1946)
- Part V: Redemption-History
- Light in the Smoke (1923)
- Salvation History and Preaching (1931)
- Melchizedek, Abraham, and Christ (1941)
- Part VI: German Occupation
- “My Shield and Trust” (1940)
- “That I May Yet Remain Faithful” (1940)
- The Reformed Confession in Times of War (1940)
- Why Barthianism Approaches the Neo-Calvinist Position in Times of War (1940)
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