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oa Het Herderlijk Schrijven van de Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk in 1941
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800, Volume 45, Issue 96, Jul 2022, p. 55 - 88
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- 01 Jul 2022
Abstract
Abstract
The Pastoral Letter of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1941
The defeat of the Dutch army in 1940 was followed by five years of German occupation. As Dutch churches were not directly under control of the state, they retained the freedom to present their critical views to the occupier. This article analyses an early public request by the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) to withdraw antisemitic policies, followed by a public declaration of its position under German occupation in the Summer of 1941. The DRC was well aware of the successes and failures of the German church struggle. Given this background, the General Synod developed a careful but critical attitude towards the German authorities.
© George Harinck. [This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license]. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Keyword(s):
Dutch Reformed Church;
Eccesial protest;
German Kirchenkampf;
Herderlijk Schrijven [Pastoral Letter] 1941;
Second World War