Neo-Calvinism and the French Revolution

James Eglinton is Meldrum Lecturer in Reformed Theology, University of Edinburgh, UK.George Harinck is Professor of Church History at the VU University Amsterdam and Kampen Theological University, The Netherlands.

• List of contributors Foreword (Paul Wells) Preface (James Eglinton and George Harinck) 1. Abraham Kuyper and the French Revolution (James Bratt) 2. Herman Bavinck and the French Revolution (George Harinck) 3. From Babel to Pentecost via Paris and Amsterdam: Multilingualism in Revolutionary and neo-Calvinist Thought (James Eglinton) 4. The Revolution and the Reformed: Learning from History (Mark Elliott) 5. The Theo-Politics of Fashion: Groen van Prinsterer and the “Terror” of French Revolutionary Dress (Robert Covolo) 6. Long Films about Love: Kuyper and Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy (Alissa Wilkinson) 7. Dutch Orthodox Protestant Parties and the Ghost of the French Revolution (Ewout Klei) 8. Kuyper’s Anti-Revolutionary Doctrine of Scripture (Hans Burger) 9. ‘Marie Antoinette’ or mystical depth? Herman Bavinck on theology as queen of the sciences (Wolter Huttinga) 10. French Secularity and the Islamic Headscarf: A Theological Deconstruction (Matthew Kaemingk) 11. Another Revolution: Towards a new explanation of the rise of neo-Calvinism (Hugo den Boer) Bibliography

The essays are each high in quality ... [This book is] necessary for one engaged in neo-Calvinistic studies.