DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 - Volume 45, Issue 97, 2022

Abstract ‘Is Hellas or is Israel the chosen people?’ Johannes Hermanus Gunning between Neo-Humanism and Judaism Gunning’s perception of contemporary Judaism was the result of the influence of the Dutch ‘Réveil’, especially of Isaäc da Costa. During his lifetime Gunning developed a rather consistent theology about ‘Israel’. He was no supporter of mission under the Jews. In some writings he adopted some popular ‘an Read More

Abstract K.H. Miskotte, towards a renewed Relationship with Judaism Miskotte’s dissertation on The Essence of Judaism (1932) contained a phenomenological ‘Wesensschau’, a preparation of Jewish-Christian encounter and an inner-protestant dispute at the same time. Around the Second World War too, unconditional solidarity with the persecuted Jewish people and warnings against Jewish influences on Protestantis Read More

Abstract Critic and Defender. A talk in connection with Abraham Kuyper’s pamphlet Liberalisten en Joden from 1878. What did the Dutch politician and theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) think about Jews, and how did he approach them in the context of the Netherlands? To answer this question, we focus on one of his key texts related to this subject, his pamphlet Liberalisten en Joden (1878). When he distinguished the J Read More

Abstract Neo-Calvinism and the Jewish Mission of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. Neo-Calvinism stimulates the communication of the Christian message under the conditions of a modern democracy, where citizens enjoy the privilege of free speech. At first sight, Jewish mission would seem to fit well into this general purpose. As it is, the Jewish Mission of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands between 1896 Read More

Abstract The Booklet Voor ons ons Jodendom en niet het Christendom (For us our Judaism and not Christianity) written by Chief Rabbi Justus Tal (1945) Immediately after the Second World War, the Dutch Chief Rabbi Justus Tal published a booklet in which he defended the Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and opposed the Protestant Christian interpretation of this holy book. His purpose was to prevent the conversion of Je Read More

Abstract Guilt and Responsibility: The Catholic Church and Judaism after 1945 The Catholic Church considers the dialogue with Judaism as more or less parallel to the dialogue of the Church with Islam. This is a striking difference with many protestant denominations. The question of guilt for the anti-Jewish invectives within Catholicism, which has partly contributed to a climate of Antisemitism or at least to indifference for the plig Read More