A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)
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1929
A four-volume, posthumously published work on the consummation of the ages, previously published in eight series of articles totaling 306 installments in De Heraut, no. 1724, January 15, 1911–no. 2134, December 15, 1918. The original series, which were published for eight years in the form of front-page articles in De Heraut, bear traces of Kuyper’s senescence, particularly in his repetitions, unfocused digressions, mistakes in detail, and passages left open to criticism. To correct these deficits and to keep the price of the edition within acceptable limits, the editor dropped seventy-seven articles (including the entire fourth series; cf. 1929.11) and introduced what he considered necessary changes to the rest. Each article was reprinted as a chapter with its own heading. At the conclusion of the fourth volume, the editor included three indices. Kuyper began this work on God’s renewing of humanity and the world immediately after he completed his series Pro Rege (see 1911.03). The installments in De Heraut were only interrupted by Bible studies and meditations on church holidays and by his summer vacations.
The first volume contains the first and the second series. The first series includes the introduction and an overview of how Israel, gentiles, and various philosophical systems anticipate salvation. It concludes with Kuyper’s vision of the consummation. The editor reduced the number of articles from the thirty-eight originally published in De Heraut, no. 1724, January 15, 1911–no. 1772, December 17, 1911, to thirty-five chapters.
In the second series the divine decree is discussed in connection with the course of history and the creation as a whole. While twenty-five articles were originally published in De Heraut, no. 1775, January 7, 1912–no. 1801, July 7, 1912, the book contains only twenty-one chapters. The editor sometimes chopped up the original articles and freely combined pieces from various articles of the series to create new chapters.
The price quotations and page proofs of several printers have been preserved in the archives of the publisher (GAK/AK). These documents show that J.H. Kok already planned to publish an edition of Van de voleinding in 1919, with a proposed print run of 3,000 copies. Kuyper was evidently aware of these plans because he signed one of the proof pages. The plan did not come to fruition, perhaps because the publisher came to the conclusion that more editorial work would be required to produce a responsible and marketable work. This edition came about through the initiative of the publisher, who requested that it be edited by H.H. Kuyper, Kuyper’s eldest son.