Abraham Kuyper: After a Century, in the News Again

Abraham Kuyper has been in the news lately. It has been almost a century since his name has been mentioned as frequently in the media as in the past few weeks. In the 19th century Netherlands Kuyper was often in the headlines. Over five decades he founded two newspapers, a university, a political party and a denomination, making him one of the best-known figures in Dutch public life in the 19th century.