Reformed churches in the Netherlands

The reformed churches in the Netherlands (GKN), often referred to simply as the reformed church, popularly known as "reformed" and just under vrijgemaakt werereferred to as "synodalen" or "Reformed members of the liberated", was until 1 may 2004 a Dutch reformed Church society.



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[hide] *Arise 1  ==Genesis[ Edit] == Appearance of the different currents in NetherlandsGenesis of churches in Netherlands It was founded in 1892 when two groups United who had separated from the Dutch Reformed Church :
 * 2 separation and fusion
 * 3 Naming
 * 4 Theological development
 * 5 famous members and theologians
 * 6 see also
 * 7 external links

The reformed churches in the Netherlands after the Association counted by 1892 700 local municipalities (394 from the secession, 306 from the Doleantie) and 370,000 members (189.000 from the secession, 181,000 from the Doleantie). This number of members would be around 1975 to become nearly 900,000 members (according to the ecclesiastical statistics) and spacious 940.000 members (according to the 2000 census) and then declined to approximately 675,000 per early 2004 when the reformed churches became part of the PKN.
 * most of the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands, created from the secession of 1834 (a very small part survived and is called the Christian Reformed churchessince 1947).
 * the Group that emerged from the Doleantie in 1886, led by Abraham Kuyper.

Abraham Kuyper was by far the most important leader of the reformed churches in the Netherlands and gave impetus to the creation of the reformed pillar. Organisations were set up in here a close connection with the reformed church, for example the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the NCRV, the daily newspaper the standard (laterWedding) and the Anti Revolutionary Party, which is now part of the CDA. ==Separation and fusion[ Edit] == Since its founding in 1892, the Church twice a secretion. The first was in 1926. By a conflict about the literal interpretation of the Bible broke down a wing themselves off from the reformed churches in the Netherlands, and formed the reformed churches in the Restored Connection. Because the Bible in Genesis States that the serpent in paradise to Eva spoke, the Orthodox majority came to the conclusion that God had to have given voice to this animal the ability. The members of the Empire after 1822, wing who saw it what allegorischer. On the Synod of Assen in 1926 it went eventually to whether Scripture gives a reliable and factual account in Genesis 3. The Synod of 1926 spoke out that was a "sensory" hose. It went in Genesis 3 so as not to stories, fables, myth or fiction, but to actually observable realities, such as a snake, trees, people, and so on. In 1971/1972, the Synod of the reformed churches in the Netherlands revoke the decisions of the Synod of 1926.

The second split occurred in 1944, when during the so-called Released the Reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated) are separated from the reformed churches in the Netherlands.

In 1909, the reformed churches in the Netherlands a request to the Netherlands reformed congregations (GG) in order to achieve ecclesiastical Association. By differences in theological views be the GG this request. Until the 1970s, the reformed churches in the Netherlands, the Netherlands reformed congregations (and the Christian Reformed Churches) together on a modest scale, however, in non-Church organizations like the Gereformeerd Sociological Institute and (until 2001) the Contact institution Reformed Churches.

In 1962 started the lengthy process together. This was completed on 1 May 2004, when the reformed churches in the Netherlands merged with the Dutch Reformed Churchand the Evangelical Lutheran Church to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN). At that time, the reformed churches in the Netherlands had around 675,000 members, of which 400,000 professing members. There were a total of 857 local churches, with a total of some 1,000 church buildings. Seven municipalities could not find in the merger. They founded on 8 May 2004 the continued reformed churches in the Netherlands on. one municipality were looking for links with the Dutch Reformed churches. Also the fourteen municipalities and 7000 members of the Evangelical-altreformierte Kirche in Lower-Saxony belonged to the reformed churches in the Netherlands. They are now associated member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and enact two members to the General Synod of the PKN.

<p lang="en" len="1043" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The reformed churches in the Netherlands founded in 1894 from Belgium, which occurred in 1979 have joined the United Protestant Church in Belgium, made as a separate part of the private classis Synod of North Brabant and Limburg of the reformed churches in the Netherlands. ==Naming<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the reformed churches in the Netherlands often abbreviated as ' reformed church ' were referred to, knew the local municipalities a large degree of autonomy. The local reformed church municipality was seen a stand-alone legal orderly reformed Church, which had connected within the overarching Church verband der Gereformeerde Kerken in Netherlands. ==Theological development<span class="mw-editsection" len="365" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Up to the Second World War were the churches characterized by the classic reformed confession in neo-Calvinistic sense. The reformed churches considered themselves for a long time as most true Church of Christ and had a closed, rationalist and strict character. Especially the work of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck put a mark on the religious life and thought. After the second world war is-partly due to the influence of Karl Barth -the ruling position of the classic reformed confession released. In particular from 1962 changed the Church strong and became an open plural church with lots of space and freedom.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1980 the reformed churches have the absolute authority of the Bible on learning and life even more released the controversial report by the acceptance of "God with us". The reformed churches are anno 2004 pluriform become. This development is especially reflected in the theological work of Prof. Ugur can Berkouwer (1903-1996) and Prof. Harry m. Kuitert (born 1924).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The reformed churches in the Netherlands as Golden decades a stronghold of rechtzinnigheid; by the above mentioned theological developments, they are within the reformed churches today to book as least Orthodox church related under the reformed denominations. ==Known members and theologians<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">About seven out of ten Calvinists (including members of church communities that bear the name ' reformed ' are referred to) is a member of the reformed churches in the Netherlands (now reformed churches within the PKN). This church was related to distance the largest reformed denomination. The highest number of limbs knew the reformed churches in the Netherlands in 1975; they counted when over 900,000 members.

<p lang="en" len="802" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pastors were trained for the reformed churches in the Netherlands to two universities' own ': the Free University in Amsterdam and to the theological University camps.