Abstract
This essay addresses the selection of Kuyper as conversation partner at three levels. It offers narrower autobiographical comments on the author's personal return to an interest in Kuyper, discusses the wider reception of Kuyper in South Africa and then increasingly widens the scope of the inquiry in order to identify and discuss the underlying theological and hermeneutical issues at stake in this regard. The essay discusses the similarities between a Christological concentration and the influence of Karl Barth in theological discourse in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. One may argue that Barth's critique against natural theology was, in fact, aimed at an anthropocentric interpretation of the first article of the Christian creed that was so typical of liberal theology in the wake of Kant's critiques: where human self-understanding forms the key to the knowledge of God. Keywords:Christianity; Karl Barth; Kuyper; natural theology; South Africa
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