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Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)
Dutch Protestant denomination
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)