I don’t pretend to know much about Dutch Calvinism in America or the differences between Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd. (There are good books on the subject, I would start with the work of James D. Bratt). But I know...
D.L. Noorlander is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oneonta. This interview is based on his new book, Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World (Cornell University...
As some of you know, I have been making regular visits to Grand Rapids, Michigan these days. (If you don’t know why you haven’t been reading this blog regularly enough. Shame on you! :-)) I have thus had an opportunity...
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Calvin College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been getting a lot of attention lately since one of its alums, Betsy DeVos, became Secretary of Education. (I should add that DeVos is not the only Christian...
New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, NJ is hosting the 39th Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute. The topic is “From Pavonia to the Garden State: New Jersey”s Dutch Past.” Speakers include Elizabeth Bradley, Willem Klooster, Evan Haefeli,...
Last week in my Gilder-Lehrman online graduate course on colonial North America we spent some time discussing the Dutch colony of New Netherlands. Several of the students had read Russell Shorto’s book The Island in the Center of the World:...
