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Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)
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Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)

Dutch Protestant denomination
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Also known as: Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (vrijgemaakt), Gereformeerde Kerken vrijgemaakt
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Matt Stefon was a religion editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. He earned B.A. degrees in English and American studies from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in religion and literature and an...
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Dutch:
Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (vrijgemaakt)
Also called:
Gereformeerde Kerken vrijgemaakt
Date:
1944 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
Protestantism
Reformed church
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Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated), Protestant church in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition that arose in the Netherlands in 1944 out of a doctrinal controversy within the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken). Followers of Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920), a Dutch theologian and statesman, promoted teachings on such matters as grace and infant baptism that traditionalists regarded as inconsistent with the three confessions of the Reformation: the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), and the canons (decisions on dogma) passed at the Synod of Dort (1618–19). When a synod (assembly) “bound” church officers and members to acceptance of ...(100 of 161 words)

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