Comparing Two Worldview Manifestos: Abraham Kuyper's Six Stone Lectures and Kadir Mısıroğlu's Islamic Worldview.
This essay examines how Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920), Dutch Neo-Calvinist theologian and statesperson, and Kadir Mısıroğlu (1933–2019), Turkish Islamic apologist and polemicist, deployed the concept of "worldview" as a framework for resisting secular modernity. Rather than a set of doctrines, both pre...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ecumenical Studies Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 82 - 107 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Winter2026
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