A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

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1908

Nabij God te zijn. Meditatiën.
Kampen, J.H. Kok 1908 (Amsterdam, J.R. Vrolijk). 2 vols. ([8], 372, [3] pp.; [4], 351, [4] pp.), 20cm.—unbd. ƒ2.25; bd. ƒ2.75.
Run: 2,000.
Published: October 1908.
Preface dated: June 1, 1908.
Preface, see also: 1940.03 (pp. 320–321).
Cheap edition, see: 1912.10.
Translations, see: 1918.11 (English); 1925.08 (English); 1935.05 (partial; Hungarian); 1961.03 (partial; English); 1986.04 (partial; Korean); 1990.03 (partial; Spanish); 1997.03 (abridged and rewritten; English).
All pages of type enclosed in a border.
Binding: full cloth; stamped binding; decorated spine; white and black lettering on the front cover; blind tooling on front cover and spine; beveled edges.
RKB 174.
ET: To be near unto God. Devotions.

Kuyper published nearly all these devotions (I–CX) in De Heraut during his term as prime minister (1901–1905) and during his long journey abroad (1905–1906). When Kuyper became minister of the interior and permanent chairman of the cabinet in 1901, he turned over his assignments for De Standaard and De Heraut to others; however, he continued to publish weekly devotions in De Heraut as the fruit of his Sunday rest. In his preface Kuyper seeks to clarify the title by offering some brief reflections on the Scylla and Charybdis of mysticism and intellectualism.

The first devotion—from which both volumes take their title—is based on Psalm 73:28. It was reprinted from De Heraut, no. 1447, September 24, 1905 (see also 1940.03, pp. 316–320).

The rest of the devotions from the first volume were reprinted from De Heraut, as follows: no. 1240, October 6, 1901 (II); no. 1284, August 10, 1902 (III); no. 1289, September 14, 1902 (IV); no. 1294, October 19, 1902 (V); no. 1237, September 15, 1901 (VI); no. 1297, November 9, 1902 (VII); no. 1299, November 23, 1902–no. 1302, December 14, 1902 (VIII–XI); and no. 1305, January 4, 1903–no. 1354, December 13, 1903 (XII–LVI).

The meditations in the second volume, which were numbered continuously with the first volume, were reprinted from De Heraut, as follows: no. 1303, December 21, 1902 (CVIII); no. 1449, October 8, 1905–no. 1450, October 15, 1905 (LVII–LVIII); no. 1355, December 20, 1903–no. 1360, January 24, 1904 (LIX–LXIII); no. 1373, April 24, 1904–no. 1374, May 1, 1904 (LXIV–LXV); no. 1385, July 17, 1904 (LXVI); no. 1388, August 7, 1904 (LXVII); no. 1390, August 21, 1904 (LXVIII); no. 1415, February 12, 1905–no. 1417, February 26, 1905 (LXIX–LXX; LXXIII); no. 1422, April 2, 1905 (LXXIV); no. 1427, May 7, 1905–no. 1429, May 21, 1905 (LXXV–LXXVII); no. 1431, June 4, 1905 (LXXII); no. 1433, June 18, 1905 (LXXVIII); no. 1434, June 25, 1905 (LXXI); no. 1435, July, 2, 1905 (LXXIX); no. 1448, October 1, 1905 (LXXX); no. 1451, October 22, 1905 (LXXXI); no. 1454, November 12, 1905–no. 1459, December 17, 1905 (LXXXII–LXXXVII); no. 1462, January 7, 1906–no. 1471, March 11, 1906 (LXXXVIII–XCVII); no. 1475, April 8, 1906 (XCVIII); no. 1477, April 22, 1906–no. 1481, May 20, 1906 (XCIX–CIII); and no. 1484, June 10, 1906–no. 1489, July 15, 1906 (CIV–CVII, CIX–CX).

The publisher Höveker & Wormser had already given instructions to print these devotions in 1906, but publication was delayed, probably due to the firm’s increasingly precarious financial situation. As a result, J.H. Kok, Kampen, became the publisher in the end (cf. 1907.22).