DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 - Volume 46, Issue 99, 2023

Abstract ‘For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?’ Jan de Liefde (1814-1869) and Reformed Secessionists debating election and atonement in the 1850s This article answers the question how Reformed Secessionists responded to the establishment of an independent church in Amsterdam, the Vrije Evangelische Gemeente of the evangelist Jan de Liefde in 1856. Some Read More

Abstract ‘A God-Given Problem’ This article analyses the views of the Old Testament scholar and orientalist Johannes de Groot on the relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. De Groot (1886-1942) visited the Holy Land five times in the period before World War II: in 1912, 1926, 1929, 1931 and 1937. Much more than fellow travelers and scholars he was interested in the situation and future of Arabs and Jews living withi Read More

Abstract ‘We hear your word afar.’ Dutch Protestant reactions to Niemöller before 1945 Niemöller became a well-known man in the Netherlands soon after 1933. But how well did the Dutch really know him? Niemöller never visited the Netherlands before the Second World War. The complicated conflicts in and around the German Protestant Church were hard to comprehend in the Netherlands. Unlike Social Democra Read More