Reformed Protestantism in Netherlands

The reformed Protestantism in Netherlands includes the Netherlands resulting in ecclesiastical currents within the Protestant Christianity that in origin in particular are inspired by the work of John Calvin. For this reason indicates the flow also called reformed Protestantism as Calvinism, although this last concept really only refers to the teachings of Calvin and the reformed Protestantism as flow goes wider than just his work.

The term ' reformed ' in reformed Protestantism points only on the descent from the reformation (literally: reform) that took place in the first half of the 16th century. It is ' reformed ' a confusing term because there are also other currents come from the reformation than just reformed Protestantism, such as Lutheranism, Anglicanism and the anabaptisme.

The largest reformed denomination in Netherlands is successively been the Dutch Reformed Church (1571-1816), the Dutch Reformed Church (1816-2004) and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (since 2004). In the course of history have been numerous smaller denominations split off again later, and are sometimes merged to form a new denomination. All these churches are also referenced in reformed Protestantism. The different denominations have, moreover, a very diverse character and may not all be placed under the Orthodox Protestant flow .



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == ===Emergence of the Dutch Reformed Church and of the Walloon Church[ Edit] === The ideas of the Reformation spread from around 1520 initially first by the most urbanized parts of the Netherlands, including Tournai and Valenciennes, from where it quickly spread to Antwerp. Especially in the southern Netherlands prior to the teachings of Swiss theologian John Calvin (Calvinism) a large following. Lutheranism, which initially was stronger in the North and East of the Netherlands, especially in the second half of the 16th century was largely supplanted by Calvinism.
 * 1.1 origin of the Dutch Reformed Church and of the Walloon Church
 * 1.2 creation of the Remonstrant Brotherhood
 * 1.3 the Dutch Reformed Church in the 17th and 18th centuries
 * 1.4 birth of the Dutch Reformed Church
 * 1.5 Secretions and divisions
 * 1.5.1 Secretion
 * 1.5.2 Ledeboerianen
 * Doleantie 1.5.3
 * reformed churches in the Netherlands 1.5.4
 * 1.5.5 Christian Reformed churches
 * 1.5.6 Netherlands reformed congregations
 * 1.5.7 old-Reformed
 * 1.6 Reformed Protestantism in the 19th and 20th centuries
 * 1.7 Together on road and the PKN
 * 2 list of reformed-Protestant denominations in Netherlands
 * 3 layout of the current Dutch reformed Protestantism
 * 3.1 Liberals
 * 3.2 modern Middle/Middle-orthodoxy/modern-Calvinists
 * 3.3 Evangelical/Protestants
 * Orthodox Calvinists 3.4
 * Orthodox Calvinists 3.5
 * 4 The name: ' reformed ', ' reformed ', ' Protestant ' and ' reformatorisch '
 * 5 Ex-refo's
 * 6 see also

In 1571, during the initial period of the eighty years ' war, the city was in East Frisian Emden the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) founded. This obtained following in the entire Netherlands: the current Netherlands,Flanders, French Flanders, Wallonia and East Frisia and the County of Bentheim in Germanytoday. In 1579 the public Church of the Republic of the seven United Netherlands.

In the southern Netherlands, which were not governed by the Republic of (the current Limburg, Flanders, Brabant, Walloon areas), were severely persecuted followers, which launched a flood of refugees to the North.The Walloon refugees founded their own Walloon churches, where French was the official language. This Walloon-Calvinists distinguished themselves so of the low German-Dutch Reformed Church, which low Germanas the language of instruction (Dutch) had. ===Genesis of the Remonstrant Brotherhood[ 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;">The Synod of dort in 1618 by the Dutch Reformed Church was convened following the disputes between Arminianism and Contra-remonstranten, supplied by or Jacobus Arminius and Franciscus Gomarus, centred on the predestination and capturing creeds.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rem1_1-0" len="197" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rem2_2-0" len="197" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  two hundred Remonstrant pastors were from Office put, which it founded in Antwerp the "Remonstrant brotherhood".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rem1_1-1" len="197" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rem2_2-1" len="197" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] ===The Dutch Reformed Church in the 17th and 18th centuries<span class="mw-editsection" len="401" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The Reformed rejected the free will of man, and laid their views on predestination stuck in the three forms of unity: the Dutch confession of faith, the Heidelberg Catechism and the (during the same Synod set) rules. The Synod also gave the command to the first source in the Dutch translation of the Bible, today known as the King James Bible, which was completed in 1637.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 17th and 18th century, a part of the reformed into a so-called vroomheids Further Reformation, a movement that focused on the follow as closely as possible by the Church teaching. A large part of the Church followed this movement, however. As a result, arose within the Dutch Reformed Church big differences in views and attitude to life, that is only because of the highly decentralized nature of the Church (local municipalities were largely independent) were Bridgeable.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also in the colonies of the Republic were reformed churches. There were municipalities on Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Java (Indonesia), in Recife (Brazil), Berbice (Guyana), Suriname, on Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), innew Amsterdam (New York, USA), Elmina (Ghana) and Cape Town (South Africa). In some countries, the number of denominations still, as the low German reformed church in South Africa and the Reformed Church in America in the us. Remember the ancient church buildings in several places still to the Dutch time, as in Colombo and Galle on Sri Lanka. ===Emergence of the Dutch Reformed Church<span class="mw-editsection" len="389" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 lang="en" len="901" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the French time, in 1816, is by Royal Decree of William I introduced a new Church order, in which the low German and Walloon churches merged into the Dutch Reformed Church (NHK).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The churches in East Frisia and Bentheim fall outside the new church related. Integrate these areas slowly but surely in Germany, whereby it is there in the 19th century gradually switch from low German/Dutch to high German as an official language. After the unification of Germany in 1870 many churches also gradually change of language and go later work with the Lutheran churches (see below #Duitsland). Still getting the secretion of ds. The Cock supporters here, who are also stress cooperation with Dutch fellow believers remain focused and not until after World War II finally switch from Dutch to German as Church language. ===Secretions and divisions<span class="mw-editsection" len="375" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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);">] === ====Secretion<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The new Dutch Reformed Church is much more centralised than her predecessor. Although formally during the French occupation the separation between Church and State is reflected in the Constitution, and freedom of religion is professed, King William I correct themselves very much with the relatively new religions in General and the Dutch Reformed Church in particular. The new Church order from 1816 creates a lot of unrest in some local municipalities, in particular from the centralism. This will ultimately lead to the secession of 1834 led by ds. Hendrik de Cock. The dissenters are actively persecuted by the State in the early years. Only when in 1840 William I will step down as this is less. With the introduction of a liberal Constitution in 1848 stop the persecutions.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From the secession gave rise to the reformed churches under the cross and the Christian Separated Municipalities. This United in 1869 to the Christian Reformed Church. Some "cross-minded" municipalities with a strong Orthodox character did not go along with this Association, and formed the Cross municipalities, which merged in 1907 with the Ledeboerianen to the Reformed Municipality. ====Ledeboerianen<span class="mw-editsection" len="360" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The Municipalities were a loose Ledeboeriaanse of reformed Church municipalities in Netherlands. The Central person in these municipalities was Reverend L.G.C. Lahiri (1808-1863), who in 1841 separated from theDutch Reformed Church. ====Doleantie<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">In 1886, a large Church schism led by Reverend Abraham Kuyper. A number of church councils (in Amsterdam about eighty persons; over the whole country locks over 300,000 people to join the Doleantie) broke with the Board of the Dutch Reformed Church. They called themselves the Dutch Reformed Church (Dolerende), this indicating that they saw as the continuation of the Church that King William I had gotten the name Dutch Reformed Church, but the term ' dolerend used as Supplement ' (Latin for ' complaining '), because in their opinion the ecclesiastical organisation of the church a new reformation got in the way, and because the right was denied them on the church property. In protest, the new Church of Amsterdam occupied. ====Reformed churches in the Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="381" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 lang="en" len="393" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From the merger of most of the Christian Reformed Church in Netherlands and the Group arose in 1892 the reformed churches in the Netherlands.

<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 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 declined thereafter to cica 675,000 per early 2004 when the reformed churches became part of the PKN.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1926 the reformed churches in the Restored Connection separated from the reformed churches in the Netherlands. In 1944 found the Release, at which the Reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated) are separated from the reformed churches in the Netherlands. Of the Vacated reformed churches separated themselves off the Dutch Reformed churches in 1967. A second group split in 2003 under the name reformed churches in the Netherlands (restored) or the "new Vacated churches".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Continued reformed churches in the Netherlands did not participate in the PKN-merger of 2004, because seven local municipalities could not be found in the new Church order. Their main concerns were the plurality, the coexistence of different interpretations of the Christian faith, and the fact that local reformed churches in the PKN starting from 1 may 2014, ten years after its Foundation, while maintaining the right lose money and goods from the church related to steps. ====Christian Reformed Churches<span class="mw-editsection" len="381" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The Christian Reformed churches have originated in 1892 as a continuation of the Christian Reformed Church that was formed in 1869 from the merger of the Christian separated municipalities and the reformed churches under the cross. Almost all of the Christian Reformed Church of 1869 in 1892 merged with the Dutch Reformed Church (Dolerende) to the reformed churches in the Netherlands, on three municipalities and a number of members after. ====Netherlands Reformed Congregations<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The National Association of the Netherlands reformed congregations originated in 1907 by a Cross municipalities Association (' Reformed Municipalities under the cross '), created from the secession of 1834, with the "Ledeboerianen" or Ledeboeriaanse municipalities. Some "cross-minded" municipalities with a strong Orthodox character were not called in 1869 with the unification of the Christian Separated Municipalitiesmunicipalities with the Cross to the Christian Reformed Church in 1869. The Ledeboerianen thanked their name to ds. L.G.C. Lai.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Association took place on the initiative of the then only 25-year-old [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGerrit_Hendrik_Kersten ds. G.H. Kersten], who later became founder of the SGP. K central role came by its position as Pastor of meliskerke, the only municipality in theLedeboeriaanse Zealand further Cross. On 5 June 1907 kruisgezinden and ledeboerianen each other reached in Middelburg the hand and gave rise to the new church related.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1953 found a rupture place, from which the Netherlands reformed congregations arose in Netherlands. This church related, Nederlandse gemeenten 4 consists of 49 municipalities in North America (these are known as Reformed Congregations in North America, and a municipality in Pretoria (South Africa). As one of the few denominations in the Netherlands GGiN still a growth in number of members. The church related 24.010 in Netherlands France (1 January 2013).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-refdag.nl_3-0" len="202" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  the municipalities in Netherlands are served by five pastorsin 2013, the municipalities in North America by one preacher. ====Old-Reformed<span class="mw-editsection" len="364" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The old-Reformed Church was a Dutch Municipalities between 1907 and 1948. The denomination grew out of the Ledeboeriaanse municipalities in 1907 not group with the Netherlands reformed congregations under the cross together went to the Netherlands reformed congregations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Old Netherlands reformed congregations in the Netherlands originated in 1948 from the merger of Federation of Old Netherlands reformed congregations and the Old Netherlands reformed congregations (Boone-municipalities). The most characteristic for this church context, the looser Church structure compared to other church relationships, with which they have remained closest to the Ledeboeriaanse tradition. Pastors from outside the church related can go in on Sunday for an OGG. The church buildings are mainly built in simple style as being emergency buildings, though the meaning of this last a bit blurred. The second characteristic are the prominent persons and pastors who belonged to this church related including the pastors Joh. van der Poel and e. du Marchie vingataramin and elder L.J. Palmer for whom great esteem exists. The third characteristic is the less tight dogmatic profiling. There are no private ' teaching '. ===Reformed Protestantism in the 19th and 20th centuries<span class="mw-editsection" len="397" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">In the second half of the nineteenth century the contradictions within the Dutch Reformed Church increasingly play a role. 55% of the population is member of the Dutch Reformed Church, but there are large differences in view on the Church teaching between Liberals and rechtzinnigen. On the other hand, this led to divestitures of rechtzinnigen (see above), on the other hand, this within the Dutch Reformed Church to the formation of ' modalities ', such as the religious currents called: the Reformed Bond elevation and defend the truth in the Dutch reformed (Reformed) Church (1906) represents the most Orthodox faith wing, the Association of Reformed Liberal in Netherlands (1913) the Liberal wing.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Opposite the emerging socialism, that critical of the position of the Church and provides a beginning of secularisation under the growing working class, says Pastor Abraham Kuyper, the leader of the newly created reformed churches, the antithesis. Based on the idea of sovereignty in own circle he begins at the development of a Protestant Christian column, consisting of private organizations on every social area.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the secession of the most conservative part of the reformed churches in the Netherlands in the Release of 1944, modernise the reformed churches in the 1960s and 1970s under the influence of social developments. The decompartmentalization and the ideal of ecumenism leads to a beginning of ecclesiastical cooperation between the Dutch Reformed Church and the reformed churches in the Netherlands, the two largest Protestant-Protestant denominations. This hand in hand-process flows do not compress well, but end up in a fusion of both churches with the Evangelical Lutheran Church to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) in 2004. ===Together on the way and the PKN<span class="mw-editsection" len="370" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The hand in hand-process is the name of the attempts at closer cooperation of the Dutch Reformed Church, the reformed churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Netherlands since 1961.These churches together-churches were called. Per 1 may 2004, this resulted in the merger of the churches to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Members of the Dutch Reformed Church that merger because of conscientious objection in 2004 founded the restored reformed church. To this church belong mainly to the orthodox reformed municipalities previously directions of the Reformed Bond and The Gekrookte Cane could be counted. The number of members shall be persons 57.881 (2012).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-refdag.nl_3-1" len="202" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  as one of the few denominations in Netherlands knows the HHK another growth in number of members.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Seven local congregations of the reformed church in Netherlands did not participate in the merger because they could not find in the new Church order, and founded the Continued reformed churches in the Netherlands. ==List of reformed-Protestant denominations in Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="415" 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);">] == Expanded spectrum of the various Calvinists in Netherlands from 1816 until 2006, with additional links theEvangelical Lutheran Church. The main vertical line for the Dutch Reformed Church. Click on the image to enlarge.Genesis of churches in Netherlands<p lang="en" len="124" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since 1571 there has been these reformed denominations (bold still exist, see illustration):

==Format of the current Dutch reformed Protestantism<span class="mw-editsection" len="412" 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 lang="en" len="321" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 21st century is the reformed Protestantism in Netherlands, that about 15% of the Dutch population adheres, broadly to distinguish five groups:
 * From 1571 to 1816: Dutch Reformed Church (NGK)
 * Starting from 1619: Remonstrant Brotherhood
 * From 1816 to 2004: Dutch Reformed Church (NHK)
 * From 1834 to 1869: Christian separated municipalities
 * From 1834 to 1869: reformed churches under the cross (GKohK)
 * From 1840 to 1907: Ledeboeriaanse municipalities
 * From 1869: Christian Reformed churches (CGK)
 * From 1886 to 1892: low German reformed churches (NdGK)
 * From 1892 to 2004: reformed churches in the Netherlands (GKN)
 * From 1907: Reformed municipality (in Netherlands and North America) (GG)
 * From 1907 to 1948: former Netherlands reformed congregations (OGG)
 * From 1922 to 1948: Federation of old-Netherlands reformed congregations
 * From 1926 to 1946: reformed churches in Restored Related
 * From 1944: Reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated) (GKV)
 * From 1947 to 1968: Christian reformed Municipalities (CGG)
 * From 1948: Old Netherlands reformed congregations in Netherlands (OGGiN)
 * From 1953: Netherlands reformed congregations in Netherlands (GGiN)
 * From 1968: Dutch Reformed churches (NGK)
 * From 1980: Netherlands reformed congregations in Netherlands (outside link)
 * From 2003: reformed churches in the Netherlands (restored)
 * From 2004: restored reformed church (HHK)
 * From 2004: Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN)
 * From 2004: Continued reformed churches in the Netherlands (vGKN)
 * From 2007: Old Reformed municipalities outside connection (OGGbv)
 * Starting from 2009: Netherlands Reformed churches .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The orthodox Calvinists and Orthodox Calvinists together in Netherlands-also referred to as the reformed churches. Cooperation within the Contact institution of the reformed Denomination (COGG). Along with the Orthodox Calvinists and orthodox evangelicals forms the Calvinists orthodox Protestantism.
 * 1) Liberals (1% of the population)
 * 2) Middle-orthodoxy (6% of the population)
 * 3) Evangelical/Protestants (1% of the population)
 * 4) Orthodox-reformed (4% of the population)
 * 5) Orthodox Calvinists (3% of the population)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Popularly reformed Protestantism still sometimes identified with the reformed churches. As indicated above, the different ' Netherlands ' reformed churches in a very diverse character. ===Liberals<span class="mw-editsection" len="360" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 lang="en" len="29" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This group is found in:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Liberals were in the nineteenth century an important group within the Dutch Reformed Church; they formed about a quarter of the church members. Especially in Groningen, Drenthe and North Holland was their share very large. However, this group is still further marginalised by secularisation, whereby currently less than 10% of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands can be counted to the Liberals. The Remonstrant Brotherhood is a fully liberal denomination. Liberals do not form a unit and its political and social in a wide range of parties and organizations active. In the nineteenth century is the Liberal religion-then known as "modern theology' called-highly stamped by the work of the theologians Johannes Henricus Scholten and C.W. Opzoomer. It is since that time no longer common to the Liberal Protestants give the label ' reformed '. ===Modern Middle/Middle-orthodoxy/modern-Calvinists<span class="mw-editsection" len="406" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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;">The modern middle is the moderate head flow within the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. The concept of ' modern middle ' is coined to describe the broad group that comes from the Middle-orthodoxy, the capital flow within the former Dutch reformed Calvinists, Herk, and modern-the main flow within the former reformed churches in the Netherlands. The Central modern-Orthodox and Calvinists are been the engine behind the Church merger to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
 * Protestant Church in the Netherlands
 * Association of Liberal Protestants
 * Zwingli bond
 * Remonstrant Brotherhood
 * Liberal Faith Community NPB

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many church members who can be counted on to the moderate mainstream, not identify themselves with this movement, but only with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands as a whole. Individual organizations are therefore hardly. An exception is the renewal movement On Good Rumor, founded in 2000, that serves as a network for "modern" pastors. The modern middle is politically especially strong presence in the CDA, but also in other political parties. Children usually go to Protestant Christian schools.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The term Central orthodoxy was first used by the theologian Hendrikus Berkhof. The Dutch Royal family, strongly linked to the Dutch Reformed Church, belongs to the reformed Central orthodoxy, although QueenJuliana was rather liberal. The term is still widely used in the PKN.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Modern-gereformeerd is a name that was used for those Calvinists who in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century have tried to let the reformed orthodoxy connection with social developments. The reformed churches in their entirety before belonged to the orthodox Calvinists. The Orthodox theological views of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck and-later- G.C. Berkouwer put a stamp on the church life and thinking within the reformed churches. Under the influence of more contemporary theological views (among others by the influential VU-Professor Harry Kuitert and the Leiden students Pastor Herman Wiersinga) is after 1970 for the mainstream within the reformed churches the term ' modern-reformed ' prevalent. Since the merger in 2004 Church identify many ex-members of the GKN itself exclusively as ' Protestant ' or ' as ' central orthodox rather than as modern-gereformeerd. ===Evangelical/Protestants<span class="mw-editsection" len="374" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 lang="en" len="60" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This group is spread over the following denominations:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Evangelical movement within Evangelical or reformed Protestantism in Netherlands is relatively new. They arose under the influence of the rise of Evangelical denominations in Netherlands, which also attract many members of reformed huize know. In 1995, the Evangelical work group founded by members of the Dutch Reformed Church and reformed churches in the Netherlands who argued for renewal and ' spiritual revival ' of the Church. Since 2000 there is a formal collaboration with the PKN. Both within the PKN and within the orthodox reformed denominations, the Evangelical movement a small but growing following. ===Orthodox-reformed<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 lang="en" len="60" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This group is spread over the following denominations:
 * Protestant Church in the Netherlands
 * Evangelical Work Group
 * Reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated)
 * Christian Reformed Churches
 * Dutch Reformed Churches

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The orthodox Calvinists forms the main flow in the reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated) and the Dutch Reformed churches and the majority within the Christian Reformed Churches (a minority can be counted to the Orthodox-reformed). These three churches are working more and more closely, and it is expected that they will, in the long run, perhaps merger passing (at local level is that sometimes the case). In protest against this cooperation in 2003 and in 2009 the GKv groups vrijgemaakt were secreted in the reformed churches in the Netherlands (restored) the reformed churches respectively, two relatively closed denominations which the former vision of the GKv as ' only true Church ' adhere.
 * Protestant Church in the Netherlands
 * Denominational Association
 * Denominational Reformed Consideration
 * Gereformeerde Bond (minority)
 * Reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated)
 * Dutch Reformed Churches
 * Christian Reformed Churches
 * Continued reformed churches in the Netherlands
 * Reformed Churches (restored)
 * Reformed Churches In The Netherlands

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Within the Protestant Church in the Netherlands members of the Denominational Association (born in NHK) and the Denominational Reformed Consideration (born in the GKN) to be counted among the orthodox Calvinists. The orthodox-reformed theology and society view is strongly stamped by the work of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck, Dutch theologians and was formerly mainly propagated by the reformed churches in the Netherlands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Especially the vrijgemaakt were until recently had a close column, with own vacated-reformed schools, a private party (REFORMED POLITICAL LEAGUE, merged into the Christianunion), a private newspaper (Dutch Newspaper), etc. The limits of this column are, however, faded, especially in the direction of other orthodox reformed churches, but also towards the Evangelical movement on the one hand and Central Orthodox churches on the other. To a large extent supports the Evangelische Omroep on orthodox-reformed churches and Evangelical groups. This flow is mainly In political terms with the Christian Union, but also at the CDA. A very small but growing minority agrees SGP. ===Orthodox Calvinists<span class="mw-editsection" len="374" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 lang="en" len="60" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This group is spread over the following denominations:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Calvinists and Orthodox Calvinists are the strictest group therefore partly exempt itself from the rest of society. The ecclesiastical divisions is great: as many as six denominations are also half of the Orthodox reformed and Christian Reformed churches and a significant minority within the PKN (members of the reformed Bond) is Orthodox. In addition, there is also a large number of "free municipalities" that do not belong to a church context. This is partly explained by the very great importance of the own finding of faith, whereby over religious affairs dispute quickly. The bevindelijke theology in particular back seizes on seventeenth and eighteenth-century theologians, called ancient writers, which, however, often be read by the glasses of the twentieth-century theologians of the different denominations. So are the three denominations of the Netherlands reformed congregations stamped by the work of the theologian Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, however, any that they explain different again.
 * Protestant Church in the Netherlands
 * Gereformeerde Bond
 * Restored Reformed Church
 * Christian Reformed Churches
 * Keep the property
 * Netherlands Reformed Congregations
 * Netherlands reformed congregations in Netherlands
 * Netherlands reformed congregations in Netherlands (outside link)
 * Old Netherlands reformed congregations in Netherlands
 * Old Reformed municipalities outside related
 * Free Netherlands Reformed Congregations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">So divided if one church is, however, in politics, as is United within the SGP. In addition there is from the sixties a whole reformatory pillar, with its own newspaper (Reformatorisch Dagblad), private reformatory schools and a wide range of civil society organisations. ==The name: ' reformed ', ' reformed ', ' Protestant ' and ' reformatorisch '<span class="mw-editsection" len="418" 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;">Within the context of reformed Protestantism are often the concepts ' reformed ', ' reformed ' and ' Protestant ' used interchangeably, each time in a different context or with different definitions. This is not surprising, because certain concepts for multiple interpretations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The distinction, in the Dutch language, between ' reformed ' and ' reformed ' is only created after the secession of 1834. Before one spoke between 1571 and 1816 only about ' reformed ' and since 1816 (stichting Dutch Reformed Church) about ' reformed '. The separated churches used the term ' reformed ' to indicate that they went back on the old church and rejected the newer Dutch Reformed Church. Since then reformed ' with ' members of the Dutch Reformed Church and reformed Calvinists ' with ' members of the various denominations meant.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The words ' reformed ' and ' reformed ' mean linguistically exactly the same. In both cases, these are churches that have emerged from the reformation or reform. Gereformeerd is a loan word, but with the oldest rights;Etymologically Dutch reformed is a concept, but only since 1816 in use. This distinction does not exist In other languages (English: Reformed, German: reformé, French: reformiert), whereby it is often struggling to the distinction between Dutch-reformed and reformed to indicate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Within the Dutch Reformed Church was formed in 1906, however, also an Orthodox faith movement, which called itself the reformed Bond. Members are ' reformed-reformed ' called. The two concepts overlap each other so. The distinction between reformed and reformed says nothing about the degree of smoking-or rechtzinnigheid: all currents were present within the Dutch Reformed Church, from the most liberal to the most Orthodox faith.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because the Dutch Reformed Church in 2004 with the biggest reformed denomination, the reformed churches in the Netherlands, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church merged to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, is the distinction between ' reformed ' and ' reformed ' largely disappeared. Although there is still a significant number of municipalities ' reformed ' and ' reformed churches ' within the Protestant Church exist, the vast majority of local congregations are called Meanwhile ' Protestant municipality '. This is not just about merger and reformed Calvinists municipalities, but also to reformed village municipalities who have chosen to call now ' Protestant '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Partly because of this, a part of the earlier reformed Calvinists and identifies himself as ' Protestant '. This raises possible new confusions on, because the concept is also an international Protestant collective name for all non-Catholic and non-Oriental Churches within Christianity, in other words all Christian churches that have arisen since the reformation (see Protestantism).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Additional confusion creates the three meanings of the word ' reformed ' that through each other be used: one can either exclusively targets on the entire reformed denomination, on members of the reformed churches in the Netherlands, while in addition the Reformed churches in the Netherlands (liberated) for a long time the term ' reformed ' for their own organisations have claimed. Accordingly, the term is often used to both Dutch Reformed Church, the reformed church (mistakenly) GKN as all societies to identify jointly with it. In addition, one often speaks of ' reformed ' when one has in mind specifically the Orthodox Calvinists . Use the Orthodox Calvinists typically labeled "reformatorisch' for their own organizations in order to avoid the misunderstanding that these belong to a less orthodox reformed denomination in their eyes. In some cases, that term also sometimes for orthodox Orthodox Calvinists together and use, especially when the organisations created for the seventies in which the reformatory pillar became apparent. ==Ex-refo's<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" 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;">There is in refo's a community of so-called ' ex-Netherlands ', which have left the reformed Protestantism. They often still camps with an unprocessed past that often as narrow and suffocating was experienced and keep to their former fellow-sufferers sometimes meetings reformed live with other Renegades (who either have become liberal Protestant or non-believer) to be able to make negotiable.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="192" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="192" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] ==See also<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" 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);">] ==
 * Reformation
 * Calvinism
 * Reformed Protestantism also reformed movements in other countries treated
 * Protestantism in Netherlands, which also treated non-reformed currents in Netherlands
 * Religion in Netherlands