G. Harinck
VU University Amsterdam
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Journal of Reformed Theology | 2017
G. Harinck
Race was not a dominant factor in neo-Calvinism. Rather, stress was laid on the universal character of Christianity, especially in the case of Herman Bavinck. While some of the South African PhD students at the Vrije Universiteit’s defended apartheid with reference to neo-Calvinism, it was B.B. Keet—who would become a noted critic of apartheid—who adopted Bavinck’s views. As a professor in Stellenbosch, Keet initially accepted apartheid for cultural and practical reasons, but he became critical when South Africa officially implemented apartheid policy in 1948. This resulted in his book Whither, South Africa?, in which he rejected the theological arguments undergirding apartheid with arguments almost literally derived from Bavinck. It is clear from this case study that neo-Calvinism was employed not only to support apartheid, but also to criticize it as well. In the Netherlands his stand was recognized and shared by two more of Bavinck’s students: J.J. Buskes and J.H. Bavinck. Keet met with opposition within his own circles but stuck to his position and inspired his student, the apartheid critic C.F. Beyers Naude.
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies | 2017
G. Harinck; James Eglinton
This travel account was written in 1892 by Herman Bavinck, then professor of systematic theology at the Theological School in Kampen, following a séjour in North America. His account of this trip deals with (i) land and nature, (ii) American culture (intentionally viewed from the bottom), (iii) towns and cities, (iv) houses and home life, (v) the character of the inhabitants, and the (vi) social, (vii) moral, and (viii) religious lives of late nineteenth century Americans.
Church History and Religious Culture | 2014
G. Harinck
Historiography of the Netherlands 1945–1970 leaves one with the impression that the church as an actor in society had already acknowledged that it was obsolete. The role of the church in these decades is above all a passive one: at first the church does not do anything of importance within society, and subsequently it is abandoned by it. This impression overlooks the fact that the church—Catholic as well as Protestant, but this article is focused on the two largest Dutch Protestant denominations—changed its attitude towards society in these decades immensely. From institutions that sustained the societal order they became its major critic, calling for justice in a welfare state that blurred moral boundaries. This change is most clear in the new role the diaconie [the social welfare work of the church] assumed. Now the welfare state took care of the material needs of the destitute, the diaconie focused on social and also counter-cultural church social welfare work. The churches’ criticism of especially Protestant civil society ultimately achieved the opposite of what it was aiming for: in the hope that they could change the character of society and under their influence bring about salvation, their criticism led externally to a further weakening and a greater invisibility of the church in society. The churches’ new role engendered much debate in the 1960s in and outside the churches, but the result was increasing isolation. This became visible when members started to leave the church en masse in the 1960s and 1970s. The abandonment of the churches in favour of society that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s was preceded by the churches’ rejection of that very same society. In other words, the churches were not overcome by this reversal of fortune, but had themselves provoked it.
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies | 2013
G. Harinck
Abstract This article explores the relations between Reformed leaders in Scotland and the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. Both countries experienced Reformed revivals and the creation of free churches. An important debate in both countries was about the relation between these free churches and the state. The ideas of Groen van Prinsterer in the Netherlands were influenced by the Scotsman Thomas Chalmers. Confronted with the Free Church, they both advocated the Christian character of the nation, and the Christian character of the public domain. However, they both underestimated the influence of secularization and both lacked political support for their ideas. The future went to the Free Church and a secular or plural character of the public domain.
On Kuyper. A Collection of Readings on the Life, Work & Legacy of Abraham Kuyper | 2013
G. Harinck; Steve Bishop; John H. Kok
Canon van de christendemocratie | 2012
G. Harinck
Uitgeverij Bert Bakker | 2009
Herman Paul; G. Harinck; Bart Wallet
Bavinck lezingen 2005: 125 jaar Vrije Universiteit | 2006
Jan Hoogland; K. van Bekkum; G. Harinck
Archive | 2012
R.H.J.M. Gradus; G. Harinck; A.C.M.W. van Kessel; K. Hoentjen; H.-M. ten Napel
Canon of Dutch Christian Democracy | 2012
J.W. Sap; R.H.J.M. Gradus; G. Harinck; H.-M. ten Napel