Oct 30, 2024
Acton and Kuyper on politics
"In the French revolution a civil liberty for every Christian to agree with the unbelieving majority; in Calvinism, a liberty of conscience, which enables every man to serve God according to his own conviction and the dictates of his own heart." —Abraham Kuyper, "Calvinism and Politics," Stone Lectures on Calvinism, 1898. "What the French took from the Americans was their theory of revolution, not their theory of government—their cutting, not their sewing." —Lord Acton "The French Revolution ignores God. It...
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