Announcement of Publication: The Politics of Antithesis: The Antirevolutionary Government of Abraham Kuyper 1901–1905 by P. J. Hoedemaker
On August 1st, 1901, a new government was installed in the Netherlands, formed by Antirevolutionary Party (ARP) leader Abraham Kuyper. The culmination of decades of relentless effort, it represented a new departure in Dutch politics: a government explicitly invoking the Christian revelation as the basis for its policy. “Revelation over Reason!” had been the battle …