The Reformed Church in America
The Reformed Church in America

Author: Marvin D. Hoff

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780802800817

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Hoff chronicles and analyzes the RCA's creative experiments in organizing for mission in America and around the world, recording the successes and shortcomings of a great variety of structures through which the church seeks to do Christ's work. While the book covers more than two centuries of mission work, the primary emphasis is on the period from 1945 to the present.

Word and World
Word and World

Author: James W. Van Hoeven

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780802802460

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From its beginning the Reformed Church gave a prominent place to intellectual discourse and insisted that its theology inform and judge all its actions. This book examines the history of that discourse and defines the theology that remains a crucial element in the denomination's identity.

By the Vision of Another World
By the Vision of Another World

Author: James D. Bratt

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0802867103

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This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for historians to study and how past cases can enrich our understanding of worship today. By the Vision of Another World gathers highly regarded historians who usually are not read together because of the widely different subjects on which they typically work. Yet their essays all fit together here as they address how worship, work, and worldview converge and reinforce each other no matter what particular place, era, denomination, or ethnic/racial group is under consideration. The variety of methodologies and voices will appeal to a breadth of critical interests, while the consistently high quality of historical narrative will keep readers engaged.

Reformed Theology in America
Reformed Theology in America

Author: David F. Wells

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780802800961

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"Modern Reformed Theology In America Has shown astonishing variety in its expression. Grouped under the name "Reformed" are, in fact, five diverse traditions - the Princeton theology, Westminster Calvinism, the Dutch schools, Southern Reformed thought, and Neoorthodoxy. This book provides penetrating analysis of these five traditions and the two leading theologians of each. The result is an important advance in our understanding of what being Reformed has meant and what it should now mean in the late twentieth century." -- Publisher.

The Convent of Wesel
The Convent of Wesel

Author: Jesse Spohnholz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1108140882

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The Convent of Wesel was long believed to be a clandestine assembly of Protestant leaders in 1568 that helped establish foundations for Reformed churches in the Dutch Republic and northwest Germany. However, Jesse Spohnholz shows that that event did not happen, but was an idea created and perpetuated by historians and record keepers since the 1600s. Appropriately, this book offers not just a fascinating snapshot of Reformation history but a reflection on the nature of historical inquiry itself. The Convent of Wesel begins with a detailed microhistory that unravels the mystery and then traces knowledge about the document at the centre of the mystery over four and a half centuries, through historical writing, archiving and centenary commemorations. Spohnholz reveals how historians can inadvertently align themselves with protagonists in the debates they study and thus replicate errors that conceal the dynamic complexity of the past.

The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship
The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship

Author: Richard J. Mouw

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2011-11-21

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0802866980

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Richard J. Mouw is well known for his incisive views on the intersection of culture and Christianity and for his efforts to make the thought of major Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper accessible to average Christians. In this volume Mouw provides the scholarly "backstory" to his popular books as he interprets, applies, expands on -- and at times even corrects -- Kuyper's remarkable vision for faith and public life. In thirteen essays Mouw explores and develops the Kuyperian perspective on key topics in Christian cultural discipleship, including public theology, sphere sovereignty, education, creation, and more. He deftly articulates an ecumenically enriched neo-Calvinist -- or "neo-Kuyperian" -- perspective that appropriates and contextualizes the ideas and insights of this important theologian and statesman for new challenges in Christian thought and service.

Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the Nineteenth Century
Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Robert P. Swierenga

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780802847096

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Volume 32 in the HSRCA series chronicles the internal quarrels that have occurred in RCA history, particularly the landmark secessions that occurred in 1850, 1857, and 1882. While exploring the unity and disunity that have characterized the RCA since the Dutch immigration to the United States, this study also points out the righteous motivations that lay behind these struggles and shows how these historic quarrels have their counterpart in contemporary debates over the ordination of women and the church's acceptance of homosexuals.