Doctoral Theses on Kuyper (updated 2 Decemebr 2025)
In chronological order
Young, William 1943 “The development of a Protestant philosophy in Dutch Calvinist thought since the time of Abraham Kuyper.” Union Theological.
Van Heukelom, Raymond R. 1952/53. “Abraham Kuyper’s View of the Function of the Church in the World.” PhD diss., Northern Baptist.
Rooy, Sidney H. 1956. “Kuyper vs. Warfield: An Historical Approach to the Nature of Apologetics.” PhD diss., Union Theological Seminary.
Douma, Jochem. 1966. Common Grace in Kuyper, Schilder, and Calvin: Exposition, Comparison, and Evaluation. Lucerna: Crts Publications, 2017.
Westra, John. 1972. “Confessional Political Parties in the Netherlands, 1813–1949.” PhD diss., University of Michigan.
Casey, Ramon J. 1988. “Abraham Kuyper’s Political Worldview.” PhD diss., Regent University, Virginia.
Campbell-Jack, Walter Campbell. 1992. “Grace without Christ? The Doctrine of Common Grace in Dutch-American Neo-Calvinism.” PhD diss., University of Edinburgh.
Heslam, Peter S. 1993. “Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism: An Historical Study.” PhD diss., Oxford University. Published as Creating a Christian Worldview, Paternoster, 1998.
Kobes, Wayne A. 1993. “Sphere Sovereignty and the University: Theological Foundations of Abraham Kuyper’s View of the University and Its Role in Society.” PhD diss., Florida State University.
Langley, McKendree R. 1995. “Emancipation and Apologetics: The Formation of Abraham Kuyper’s Anti-Revolutionary Party in the Netherlands, 1872–1880.” PhD diss., Westminster Theological Seminary.
Duk, Kwang. 1999. “Ecclesiology and Social Ethics: A Comparative Study of the Social and Ethical Role of the Church in the Views of Abraham Kuyper and Stanley Hauerwas.” PhD diss., Kampen.
Bacote, Vincent. 2002. “The Role of the Holy Spirit in Creation and History with Special Reference to Abraham Kuyper.” PhD diss., Drew University.
Naylor, Wendy Fish. 2006. Abraham Kuyper and the emergence of neo-calvinist pluralism in the Dutch school struggle.” PhD diss., University of Chicago
Wood, John Halsey, Jr. 2010. “Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper’s Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands.” PhD diss., Oxford University Press, 2013.
Porter, Jacob. 2011. “Abraham Kuyper’s Sphere Sovereignty: Theological Comparisons and Application to Poverty.” PhD diss., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Kaemingk, Matthew. 2013. “Mecca and Amsterdam: Christian Ethics between Islam and Liberalism.” PhD diss., Vrije Universiteit and Fuller Seminary. Published as Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear, Eerdmans, 2018.
Himes, Brant Micah. 2015. “For a Better Worldliness: The Theological Discipleship of Abraham Kuyper and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” PhD diss., Fuller Theological Seminary, Center for Advanced Theological Study.
Chiu, Agnes S. 2016. “Common Grace and Common Good For China: An Exposition of Abraham Kuyper and Leo XIII on Labor Struggles in Twenty-First Century China.” PhD diss., Fuller Theological Seminary.
Park, Jae-Eun. 2016. “Driven By God: Active Justification and Definitive Sanctification in the Soteriology of Bavinck, Comrie, Witsius, and Kuyper.”
Liou, Jeff M. 2017. “Much in Every Way: Employing the Concept of Race in Theological Anthropology and Christian Practice.” PhD diss., [University Name].
Wagenman, M.R. 2017. “The Power of The Church: The Ecclesiology of Abraham Kuyper.” PhD diss., Bristol University and Trinity College. Published by Pickwick Publications, 2020.
Dagley, Logan. 2018. “The Missional Church as an Institution and Organism: How Abraham Kuyper’s Ecclesiological Distinction Clarifies the Church’s Mission in Relation to Selected Contemporary Missiological Challenges.” PhD diss., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Harefa, Surya Hadianto. 2020. “A Free Church in a Free State: The Possibilities of Abraham Kuyper’s Ecclesiology for Japanese Evangelical Christians.” PhD diss., Kampen.
Prideaux, Louise. 2020. “Approaching the Complex, Cultural Other: Towards a Renewal of Christian Cultural Engagement in the Reformed Tradition.” PhD diss., University of Exeter.
Un, Steven A. 2020. “Theology of the Public Sphere: An Interpretation of the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas from the Perspective of the Theology of Abraham Kuyper with Implications for Public Theology and the Indonesian Context.” PhD diss., VU Amsterdam.
Greeson, Dennis. 2021. “Common Grace, Providence, and the Saeculum: Abraham Kuyper’s Theology of Culture Revisited.” PhD diss., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Jones, Timothy. 2024. “Saving Common Grace: Kuyper and Present Possibilities for Public Theology in the UK.” PhD diss., King’s College London.
Williams, David M. 2025. The Beginnings of Wisdom: Schliermacher, Newman, and Kuyper on Theology and the End of Higher Education.” D.Phil. Keble College, Oxford.
Kristanto, David. 2025. “God and Diversity: A Kuyperian Public Theology for Religious Pluralism in Indonesia.” PhD diss., VU Amsterdam.
Some non-English dissertations
Rüter, A. J. C. 1935. De spoorwegstakingen van 1903. Leiden.
Kasteel, P. 1938. Abraham Kuyper. Kampen.
Leeuwen, P. A. van. 1946. Het kerkbegrip in de theologie van Abraham Kuyper. Franeker.
Ridderbos, Simon Jan. 1947. De Theologische Cultuurbeschouwing van Abraham Kuyper. Kampen.
Dengerink, Jan Dirk. 1948. Critisch-historisch Onderzoek naar de Sociologische Ontwikkeling van het Beginsel der ‘Soevereiniteit in Eigen Kring’. Kampen.
Langman, H. J. 1950. Kuyper en de volkskerk. Kampen.
De Ru, Cornelis. 1953. De Strijd over het Hoger Onderwijs tijdens het Ministerie-Kuyper. Kampen.
Velema, Willem H. 1957. De Leer van de Heilige Geest bij Abraham Kuyper. ‘s-Gravenhage.
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