Kuyper on Redemption

In response to the post I made the other day on the purpose of redemption, a friend emailed me the following quote from Abraham Kuyper's book Lectures on Calvinism (a book that would cause a lot of people to reevaluate their understanding of the term 'Calvinism'; it's not a book about TULIP!):

“The object of the work of redemption is not limited to the salvation of individual sinners, but extends itself to the redemption of the world, and to the organic reunion of all things in heaven and on earth under Christ as their original head.

The final outcome of the future, foreshadowed in the Holy Scriptures, is not the merely spiritual existence of saved souls, but the restoration of the entire cosmos, when God will be all in all under the renewed heaven on the renewed earth.”

—Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson 2008), 105-106