James Donald Bratt is a scholar of Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuijper generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian...

, and is currently a full-time professor at Calvin College

Calvin College

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An alumnus of Calvin, Bratt received his PhD

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 from Yale University

Yale University

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 after writing his dissertation, Dutch Calvinism

Calvinism

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in Modern America. He is currently working on a biography of Kuyper. His other areas of specialty include colonial American history, and American intellectual and religious history.