Promptly & Sincerely

When my alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, announced that this year's Kuyper Prize will be awarded to Rev. Dr. Timothy Keller, I honestly wasn't move. I believe I only went to one Kuyper lecture during my time at PTS, and I think I went because I was photographing the event for the publications office. To be even more honest, I only really know Kuyper by name and not by theology or his contributions to Calvinism. So when I first heard that Keller would receive the prize, I thought, "Oh, that's interesting." Maybe some explanation is in order. According the the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology's website , "Kuyper visited Princeton in 1898 and delivered the Stone Lectures that year, his famous Lectures on Calvinism, in Miller Chapel. Kuyper’s worldview, as presented in his hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and books, profoundly affected the development of Reformed theology in The Netherlands, the United States, Canada, South Africa, and K...