Biografische Einführung zu Abraham Kuyper

Henry Dosker, Freund Bavincks ab Gymnasialzeiten, zitiert zum Schreibstil Bavincks im Vergleich zu Abraham Kuyper:

Bavinck was an Aristotelean, Kuyper an  a Platonic spirit. Bavinck the man of clear conception, Kuyper the man of the glittering idea. Bavinck built on historical data; Kuyper speculated with intuitively conceived ideas. Bavinck was in his thinking principally inductive, Kuyper deductive.