DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 - Volume 42, Issue 90, 2019

Abstract The famous Dutch author G.K. van het Reve (later: Gerard Reve) converted to Catholicism and was baptized in 1966. This surprising move was a cause célèbre in the Netherlands in the 1960s. In his Reve-biography Nop Maas refers to Reve’s early contacts with Roman Catholics, but did not elaborate on it due to lack of sources. Jan Peet found reports on one of these contacts in the archives of the Katholieke Actie, a cent Read More

Abstract From 1933 to 1939 a series of eight books was published, titled ‘Psychologie van het ongeloof’ (psychology of unbelief). This article pays attention to Ph.A. Kohnstamm, the initiator and editor of this series, and gives an overview of his religious and scientific development. Kohnstamm was a scientist who converted to Christianity. He developed a Biblical personalism and focused on pedagogy in his later life. This article d Read More

Abstract Rev. B. Telder served the Reformed Church (liberated) of Breda in de mid-twentieth century, and came into trouble with ecclesial authorities because of his opinions on the afterlife. He was somewhat critical of the authority the Reformed confessions had in his denomination, and focused strictly on the text of the Bible. He concluded that body and soul belonged together even after death. Until Jesus Christ’s se Read More

Abstract At the end and in the aftermath of World War I, Hungary’s situation was very difficult: the war had been lost, the country was tormented by hunger and revolution, and the victoring countries were about to assign two-third of Hungary’s territory to neighboring countries. In this situation Hungary’s Protestant churches asked their Dutch sister churches for help and support in late 1918. A Hungarian delegation led by the th Read More

Abstract In 1944, the most difficult year of the war for the Netherlands, a conflict in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands resulted in a split, the Vrijmaking. Often people have wondered – to say the least – why the Reformed were busy with their internal struggles in a time when national suffering and conflict required all hands to be on deck? A common explanation refers to innere Emigration: focusing on ecclesial issues Read More