The Dutch Reformed Church in colonial Ceylon (18th century). Minutes of the consistory of the Dutch reformed Church in Colombo held at the Wolvendaal church, Colombo (1735–1797). Edited by Klaus Koschorke, translated by Samuel A. W. Mottau. (Documents on the History of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America, 2.) Pp. xviii+749 incl. 1 map and 6 colour plates. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011. €98. 978 3 447 06546 7; 2190 3603

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-652
Author(s):  
Judith M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

scholarly journals The Formularies of Unity and the Dutch Reformed Church: A preliminary survey

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Britz
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Sixth Decade ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

This article undertakes a survey of the application of the Formularies of Unity by the Dutch Reformed Church, covering its history from the 18th century to approximately 1935. Although these Formularies were the accepted confessional basis of the church, it did not prevent additional theological accommodation during the 18th century. During the first part of the 19th century an institutional concept of the church put forward a subscribing formula. The confession became important. In principle the way was opened for an institutional and contractual enforcement of the Formu­laries. This happened when the church was involved in the wide-ranging li­beral struggle during the sixth decade. Even before the 20th century a new approach in which the role of the Formularies was seen more dogmatically and confessionalistically came to the fore. And, when the church was once again entangled in a struggle (viz. the well-known 'Du Plessis case' of the 1930's) the dogmatic point of departure played into the hands of a con­fessional fundamentalism. In the history of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Formularies thus gained in ecclesiological emphasis and value and its application was conditioned by the context and theological influence. Most importantly, the underlying problem of its historicity on the one hand, and its scriptural context and intent on the other hand, remained an unpaid account.

scholarly journals From three congregations to one autonomous church: The Swaziland Reformed Church

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnau Van Wyngaard
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
First Time ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

This article covers the time from 1985 to 1992 in the history of the Swaziland Reformed Church (SRC). In 1985, for the first time in its existence, the SRC had four missionaries working in the four districts of the country. At this stage the SRC formed a presbytery within the synodical region of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) of Northern Transvaal. In 1989 – at its own request – this church became a regional synod within the DRCA. However, not long thereafter, in 1992, it was forced to become an independent Reformed church, even though it still remained part of the family of Dutch Reformed churches. Making use of original documents, this article records this history of the SRC.

scholarly journals The Department of New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria (Dutch Reformed Church) 1938� 2008

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Van der Watt ◽  
Andrie Du Toit ◽  
Stephan Joubert
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Permanent Staff ◽  
The University ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

This article deals with the history of the Department of New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria from 1938 to 2008. The focus falls on the permanent staff members and their contributions during this period. The article begins with a discussion of the life and career of Prof. E.P. Groenewald. It then proceeds to the more diff cult time of cultural boycotts, with Profs A.B. du Toit and F. Botha as members of the Department at that time. Then the careers of Profs J.G. van der Watt and S.J. Joubert are discussed. The article concludes with a discussion of the contribution made by Prof. G.J. Steyn.

scholarly journals The (Non)acceptance of Belhar in the Dutch Reformed Church: Analysing Synodical Debates of 2011 and 2013

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Jacobus Van Wyngaard
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Open Session ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

This article analyses the open session debates on the Belhar Confession at the 2011 and 2013 General Synod meetings of the Dutch Reformed Church. It identifies six key themes that repeatedly emerge from arguments made by delegates, namely: 1) accepting Belhar for the sake of the youth and future of the church; 2) Belhar as guide in the mission of the church; 3) Belhar as challenge to racism within the church; 4) Belhar and its relationship to liberation theologies; 5) the role of members in formal adoption of a new confession; and 6) adoption of confessions in ways which would not make them binding on all. From these themes three matters, which remain outstanding in terms of how the Dutch Reformed Church engages with the Belhar Confession, are raised: 1) the relationship between mission and racism; 2) the history of heresy and its implication for the present; and 3) the implication of and response to black and liberation theologies. These matters are identified as challenges given particular meaning in light of the emphasis on local congregations and members of the Dutch Reformed Church when discussing the Belhar Confession.

scholarly journals WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM A NARRATIVE REINTERPRETATION OF A MISSION (HI)STORY? REFLECTING ON THE MISSION HISTORY OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH ACCORDING TO WILLEM SAAYMAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-115
Author(s):  
Alfred Richard Brunsdon
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Mission History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

On 16 May 2015, the well-known missiologist, Willem Saayman, passed away. In this article, his overview of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) mission history, Being Missionary, Being Human (2007), is revisited from the perspective of the narrative theory of White and Epston. This reinterpretation rests on the notion that history and religious traditions are structured as narratives that are open for interpretation and reinterpretation. As Saayman depicted the DRC mission history as a problem-saturated narrative, it is argued that unique outcomes also reside within this problem-saturated narrative, creating the possibility for the re-authoring of a liberated mission narrative. It is suggested that the narrative strategies of externalisation and co-authoring can be instrumental in attaining a mission narrative that is truly human.

Dutch Protestantism and its pasts

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
Peter Van Rooden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Church History ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church acquired its modern past fairly recently, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, during the first years of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands. From 1819 to 1827 the four volumes of Ypeij and Dermout’s History of the Dutch Reformed Church appeared, some two and a half thousand pages all together. The work has not fared well. Its garrulous verbosity, weak composition, and old-fashioned liberalism have been rightly denounced. Only the four accompanying volume with notes, more than a thousand dense pages full of facts and quotations, have been admired for their scholarship. Protestant academic ecclesiastical history prefers to trace its origin to the founding in 1829 of its scholarly journal, the Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, by the two first occupants of the newly founded chairs for Church history at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht.

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