Redeemer is hosting the Kuyper Conference May 9 to 11, 2023, with keynote speaker and 2023 Kuyper Prize winner Makoto Fujimura on the theme, Kuyper and Kintsugi: Public Theology for Repair, Reconciliation, and Restoration. The Kuyper Prize is awarded by Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary. Fujimura is the first visual artist to receive the prize, which has been awarded annually since 1998.
The Kuyper Prize was established in 1998 by Rimmer and Ruth de Vries and named after Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper. It is awarded each year to a scholar or community leader whose outstanding contribution to their chosen sphere reflects the ideas and values characteristic of the Neo-Calvinist vision of religious engagement in matters of social, political and cultural significance in one or more of the spheres of society.
Fujimura is a world-renowned modern artist, author and speaker, and founder of the International Arts Movement and the Fujimura Institute. His work expounds on, popularizes and builds upon Kuyperian theology. He uses the art of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery (often with precious metals), to take what is shattered and make it whole again; not to return the object to its original state, but to represent an even more beautiful restoration of wholeness.
