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Prime Minister Balkenende’s Lecture

by Laurence O’Donnell on September 19th, 2011

On 14 October 2011, Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (2002–2010), will deliver a lecture at the 2011 Bavinck conference entitled, “Reinventing Responsibility in the 21st Century—New Orientations and the Heritage of Neo-Calvinism.”

Topics include:

  • Today’s crucial questions: globalization; economic crisis; climate change; new international power constellations
  • The loss of direction; we seem rudderless and without a compass
  • Rise of popular movements
  • Hopeful signals: values, responsibility, new alliances
  • How Kuyper, Bavinck, and Dooyeweerd dealt with “new” issues in their day, and what we can learn from them
  • The need for a new ethos of responsibility
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