Directory of Dutch Resources

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This category is devoted to the Reformed Reformation in the Netherlands. The writings of Martin Luther were an early influence in the Netherlands and many of the early Dutch Protestants were Lutheran. Although Calvin's Institutes were published in 1536, it was not until about 1550 that the Netherlands began to feel the impact of this work and the Calvinistic movement became more prominent. Gradually the followers of Calvin and Zwingli were called Reformed (Gereformeerd). The first Dutch Reformed synod was held at Dort in 1574, and in the next year the university of Leyden was founded. The Reformed Church of Holland adopted as its doctrinal and disciplinary standards the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563, the Belgic Confession of 1561, and the canons of the synod of Dort of 1618-19.

Resources in This Category

• Canons of Dordt

  http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/documents/canons_of_dordt.html
  Text of this important Reformed church document, written in 1618 and 1619 to settle a controversy with Arminius.

• Reformation in the (Northern) Netherlands

  http://www.zum.de/whkmla/period/reformation/nldref.html
  A description of the governmental structure of what is now The Netherlands and the effect of the Calvinistic reformation there.

• Synod of Dort

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Dort
  Wikipedia article on the Canons of Dort, their political impact and the foreign representatives to the Synod.

• The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort

  http://www.spindleworks.com/library/vandergugten/arminian_c.htm
  A look at the history of the five points of the Arminians and the response of the Synod of Dort.

• The Belgic Confession

  http://members.iinet.net.au/~jvd/Belgic.htm
  An e-text version of this confession written by Guido de Bres, a minister of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands.

• The History of Protestantism

  http://www.doctrine.org/history/HPv3b18.htm
  Book 18 of Wylie's work, covering the history of Protestantism in the Netherlands up to the Synod of Dort in 1618.

 

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