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oa ‘Indien de bazuin een onzeker geluid geeft, wie zal zich tot den krijg bereiden?’
Jan de Liefde (1814-1869) en gereformeerde afgescheidenen in debat over verkiezing en verzoening in de jaren 1850
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800, Volume 45, Issue 99, Dec 2023, p. 138 - 164
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- 01 Dec 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 of them, for instance Anthony Brummelkamp (1811-1888), reacted positively. Others, like Simon van Velzen (1809-1896), responded critical. The discussion about the Vrije Evangelische Gemeente became intertwined with questions concerning the doctrines of election and atonement. The difference between Reformed theologians like Brummelkamp and Van Velzen, and the readiness to cooperate with De Liefde of only the first, suggest that the concept of Evangelicalism, as defined by the British historian David Bebbington, can be more fruitful to the study of Dutch Church history than the Dutch dichotomy between evangelisch and Reformed (gereformeerd).