DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 - Volume 43, Issue 93, 2020

Abstract This article analyses the preparations and the implementation of the 27th International Eucharistic Congress, held at Amsterdam in 1924. After an introduction on the (negative) image of this congress in Dutch historiography, on the person of de papal legate (the Dutch cardinal Willem van Rossum CSSR), and on the phenomenon of the ‘Eucharistic Congresses’ and its organizing committee, the author analyses the force Read More

Abstract The Russian Revolution of 1917 evoked a lot of enthusiasm within revolutionary groups in the Netherlands. Here they saw for the first time in history the building up of a real socialist society. One of these was the League of Christian-Socialists (Bond van Christen-Socialisten), that was founded in 1907. Though the League welcomed the Russian Revolution there was also discussion, especially about the use of violence by Read More

Abstract The ecumenical movement started at the time of the First World War and was molded by the nationalism that ignited this war. In 1914-1918 it became clear that the nations had become a hindrance for the churches. At first, internationalism seemed the answer to this problem, but in the 1920s and 1930s it turned out that internationalism still was too abstract, and nationalism was still too dominant. In the early 1920 Read More

Abstract The Second World War, the Japanese military regime and the detention of Dutch Protestant and Catholic missionaries in prison camps had considerable consequences for the functioning of church life in Borneo, both within and outside the detention camps. These consequences constitute the theme of this article. Church life in the island continued to suffer some of these consequences beyond the end of the war.