Neo-Calvinism and Cultural Engagement

I am indebted to Gideon Strauss for a sizeable and ever-growing number of things. The most important, however, is the philosophical-theological system known as Neo-Calvinism. It has its origins in aDutch Reformed tradition of which Abraham Kuyper is perhaps the most famous, and is essentially a Reformed Protestant way of thinking about how to apply sound doctrine beyond the church to the rest of life and culture. Derek Melleby has written a good introduction to Neo-Calvinism on his blog, in which he writes, "Neo-Calvinism is not just reformed, it is reformational. Where as reformed theology tends to emphasis the reformation and purity of the Church, reformational theology, while based on solid doctrine, uses this doctrinal basis to be about the reformation of all areas of life."

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