Open AccessDe kerk slopen of renoveren? De vrijmaking van de plaatselijke kerken bij de oprichting (1906) en de doorstart (1909) van de Gereformeerde Bond
Author(s) -
Hendrik van den Belt
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
theologia reformata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0040-5612
DOI - 10.21827/5c5c4b8be2d72
Subject(s) - league , ecclesiology , confessional , appeal , power (physics) , theology , political science , politics , sociology , law , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy
Soon after the start in 1906 the ‘The Reformed League for the Liberation of the Dutch Reformed Churches,’ experienced a deep crisis. By 1909 the League, however, remade itself under the name ‘The Reformed League for the Promotion and Defence of Truth in the Dutch Reformed Church,’ a change often interpreted as a conscious shift away from the Doleantie and Abraham Kuyper’s ecclesiology. This article argues that in 1909 the Reformed League only renounced the appeal to political power for the liberation of the churches, an appeal that Kuyper was unhappy with. During its formative period the ecclesiology of the Reformed League emphasized the local congregations as the true confessional church, an emphasis that made its position within the Dutch Reformed Church vulnerable