Stephen Perks

Stephen Perks founded the Kuyper Foundation, a Christian charitable trust, in England in 1987. The Foundation exists to promote a renaissance of Christian culture in society by furthering awareness of the implications of the Christian faith for every sphere of life, including the church, family and State. This vision of Christian society was expressed in the words of Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Christian theologian and Statesman, who said:

:"One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. And sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to him."

The Kuyper Foundation seeks to promote this vision of Christian society by publishing literature, distributing audio-visual materials, and running lecture courses and conferences.

Books authored

* "Common-Law Wives and Concubines: Essays on Covenantal Christianity and Contemporary Western Culture" - What is the nature of Christianity? Is it a religion or a cult, i.e. a personal worship hobby? This question goes to the heart of the modern Church's failure to exercise a world-transforming faith. The antidote to this failure is the rediscovery of Christianity as the true religion, i.e. as an overarching structure to human life that anchors both the individual and the society of which he is a part in God's will for man in Christ. This religious structure the Bible calls the covenant, and it embraces the whole of human life including politics, education, science, art, welfare, health care, marriage, family life, Church, business, economy.
* "The Political Economy of A Christian Society" - Contrary to much popular opinion, economics is not a subject that is religiously neutral. The way the economy works is intimately bound up with fundamental issues of right and wrong, and what one judges to be right or wrong is itself intimately bound up with one's religious perspective.

* "A Defence of the Christian State: The Case against Principled Pluralism, and the Christian Alternative" - Principled Pluralism is the belief that the State should be a religiously neutral institution and that all religions should enjoy civil liberty and equality. In recent years this belief has gained much ground among Christians in both America and the United Kingdom.

* "The Nature, Government and Function of the Church: A Reassessment" - There is perhaps no subject that Christians have discussed, debated and argued over more fiercely than that of the nature, government and function of the church.

* "Christianity and Law: An Enquiry into the Influence of Christianity on the Development of English Common Law" - It has been said that “No proper estimate has been made of the effects of Christianity on English law, but there is no shadow of doubt that it was far-reaching.” Our legal system was formed and developed over centuries under the dominating influence of the Christian religion.

* "The Christian Philosophy of Education Explained" - The deterioration of academic standards and discipline in state schools in the last twenty-five years has finally forced the issue of education upon the consciences of many Christians who would not otherwise have considered it. There is both good and bad in this.

External links

* [http://kuyper.org The Kuyper Foundation] website.