Going Dutch in the Modern Age
Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10078352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | JOHN HALSEY WOOD |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 513-532 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046911002600 |
| OpenAlex | W2108809080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
The nineteenth century witnessed a transition from the ancien régime to the ‘age of mobilisation’, says Charles Taylor, from an organically and hierarchically connected society to a fragmented society based on mass participation, charismatic leaders and organisational tactics. Amid this upheaval the Netherlands Reformed Church faced an unprecedented crisis as it lost its taken-for-granted social status. This essay examines the new legitimation that Abraham Kuyper offered the Church through his Free Church theology, and how various other aspects of his theology, including his baptismal and public theology, developed in conjunction with his ecclesiology. Kuyper's ecclesiology thus offers a case study of problems that ecclesiology in general faced due to the social and cultural shifts of the nineteenth century
Charisma · Ecclesiology · History of religions · Legitimation · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |