This week’s Acton Commentary is a meditation by the Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), reflecting on the significance of spring for our natural and spiritual lives. “So that bread may come forth from the earth” takes its point of departure from the lines of Psalm 104: “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs for the service of man: that he may bring forth bread out of the earth.”
Pieces like this show another side of Kuyper than those that are often emphasized. He was an accomplished politician, in both church and civil circles. He was an academic theologian. But he was also a pastor, a churchman, and a Christian believer. Some of his most incisive insights and poignant observations are included in his extensive meditations and devotions on scriptural texts.
Some of these will be included in volumes in the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology series, sponsored by the Acton Institute, as they give instruction and edification for Christians following Christ in all spheres of life.