The Political Wisdom of Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer

The Political Wisdom of Guillaume Groen van PrinstererDutch statesman and historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801 1876), on whose shoulders stand such Reformed thinkers as Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck, shaped the political landscape of 19th century Holland. Key in his thinking is his view that acknowledging God in the public square safeguards liberty rather than threatens it. Writing at a time when Europe was engulfed in revolutions, Groen diagnosed Europe's upheaval as rooted in "unbelief":

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