Harry van Dyke’s book was triggered by a conference commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Kuyper’s 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures on Calvinism. Centenary speakers presented Kuyper as unprecedented. In The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper, Van Dyke considers key individuals who influenced Kuyper and as many leaders whom Kuyper influenced. Significant influencers The book’s first part discusses…
In a recently published book on Dutch war monuments (Ruurd Kok, Denken Over Herdenken. Oorlogsmonumenten in Nederland), one chapter is devoted to some monuments that have been erected in the Netherlands not to honour but to mark the death of German soldiers on Dutch soil in the Second World War. Since the 1990s Germans have…
In 1983 Yad Vashiem, The Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Centre, honoured the village of Nieuwlande in the Dutch province of Drenthe with the designation ‘Righteous Among the Nations’, the first community to be thus singled out, for having saved the lives of around 350 Jews during World War II of whom approximately 100 were children. Two individuals in particular were responsible for mobilizing the village in its efforts to save Jews: Johannes Post, a leading resistance figure who was arrested and executed in 1944, and Arnold Douwes who survived the war.
In the past year articles in Christian Courier looked at various aspects of Abraham Kuyper’s thought and theology, and historically he has had a very favourable press in Reformed circles. Some years ago the Dutch historian Jeroen Koch published a 600-page biography of Kuyper that I would recommend to all who are interested in an all-round picture of him.
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