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“Kuyper had an organic view of revelation—by this he meant that God's revelation of himself is as one whole. The Bible is not a disconnected set of anthologies — it is a whole. It is one.
This is an important point that is often ignored in fundamentalist proof texting.”

The conceited notion that we need only to open the Scriptures in order to cite from it this or that text does not for a moment withstand serious scrutiny. This may partly suffice in letting the believer know his duty vis-à-vis the government, but it is of virtually no value for understanding… how government needs to discharge that calling down to the details in order to act in conformity with God's law. (CG III)

“Theology has flourished only at times when theologians have continued in prayer and, in prayer, have sought the communion of the Holy Spirit, and, on the other hand, theology loses its leaf and begins its winter sleep when ambition for learning silences prayer in the breast of theologians.”

Prayer was integral to theology for Kuyper.

Theology was not merely an academic discipline, it "was not a dry abstraction, nor a cold intellectual speculation or scholastic hair-splitting, but it gripped his soul as the power of God's truth." It was to be done with prayer and with the communion of the Holy Spirit.

Dooyeweerd puts it:
“[Kuyper] lifted Calvinism, the most radically biblical movement within the Protestant Reformation, out of the narrow sphere of dogmatic theology where it had languished during centuries of inner decline. He raised it to the level of an all-encompassing worldview “