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DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 - Volume 47, Issue 101, 2024
Volume 47, Issue 101, 2024
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Dominees op half licht
More LessAbstractThe half-lit church ministers. The Hugenholtz brothers and the Free Congregation: a history of religious liberalism
The walls of the famous and iconic ‘pop temple’ Paradiso — a free-spirited music venue in Amsterdam — tell the fascinating history of a bold liberal religious movement with international appeal. Brothers Petrus Hermanus and Philip Reinhard Hugenholtz, liberal ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church, played a key role in establishing De Vrije Gemeente (The Free Congregation) of Amsterdam. This congregation, founded in 1870, was a liberal religious community that split from the Dutch Reformed Church and distanced itself from traditional dogmas, emphasizing free thought and individual spirituality. Their openness was reflected in their active interest in for example Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, as well as in their promotion of greater gender equality, hiring women as Sunday school teachers and allowing them to preach, thereby challenging the conservative norms that had excluded women from religious leadership and the pulpit. The history of the Hugenholtz brothers and their free congregation illustrates the broader tensions within Dutch Protestantism during this period, as the nation grappled with issues of modernity, secularization, and religious identity. Through its international connections the Free Congregation became central to the International Congress of Religious Free-Thinkers, which later became the still-existing International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF). Their 1901 conference, held in their Amsterdam church, brought together free-thinkers and liberal religious groups from the USA, England, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and India. Though the Free Congregation itself no longer exists, its legacy still resonates in the liberal religious movements of the Netherlands as well as in in recent academic research.
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Vernieuwend, eigen en oecumenisch
More LessAbstractThe Handbook for Doctrine of Faith and Morals in the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands as a witness to Catholic theological development in the interwar period.
This contribution considers the Handboek voor Geloofs- en Zedenleer in de Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland (1932) as a witness to ecclesial and theological transformation in the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands in the interbellum. It shows how in this period a broadly supported new theological paradigm was developed for this church that was both expressive of the ‘Old Catholic’ theological program as it had been developed towards the end of the nineteenth century and ecumenically viable, as it enjoyed a very positive reception beyond the boundaries of the Old Catholic Church as well. The development of the theological reasoning in the Handboek is demonstrated with reference to correspondence, in particular concerning that of its main author, the later Archbishop of Utrecht Andreas Rinkel (1889-1979), thereby also shedding light on this theologian, who would come to shape the Old Catholic tradition in a very significant manner.
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Permanent ‘prof-in-spé’?
More LessAbstractPermanently ‘prof-in-spé’?
The academic beginnings and career options of Old Testament scholar Th.C. Vriezen (1899-1981)
Theodorus Christaan Vriezen (1899-1981) is, with Abraham Kuenen, the best-known Dutch Old Testament scholar in the Netherlands and abroad. Much has been published about Vriezen, but a gap is the academic position from which he built his reputation. This article analyses how, after various disappointments, he became a professor of Israelite literature, Old Testament interpretation, history of Israelite religion and Hebrew language and archaeology at the University of Groningen. Furthermore, it charts what were Vriezen’s academic opportunities after this. Both orthodox and liberal friends also followed his theological development with interest. Vriezen followed his own path, in the tradition of ethical orthodox biblical scholarship.
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Door de ogen van Bas van der Smit
More LessAbstractThrough the eyes of Bas van der Smit. Reformed ‘Hersteld Verband’ pastors portrayed
This contribution deals with seven ‘ink on paper’ pictures of vicars who visited Cor van der Smit (1886-1944), father of the Rotterdam artist Bas van der Smit (1915–1996). Cor was member of a small Protestant church (Gereformeerde Kerken in Hersteld Verband) in Rotterdam and active in a Christian leftist political party (Christelijk-Democratische Unie (cdu) in his hometown Schiedam. In this article the author, who prepares a monography on the artist Bas van der Smit, introduces the pictures in its context, offering relevant biographical information of the men portrayed.
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