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Letters to Hazel
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Tools for Understanding
Beginning with Donald Bruggink's own notion that "history is a tool for understanding," the dozen essays in this volume are tools for understanding four areas of his life and his fifty-five years of ministry. While all the contributors to this volume have benefited from Bruggink's friendship, teaching, and ministry, the first and last essays are by the contributors he has known longest, who had a formative role in his life -- Eugene Heideman and I. John Hesselink. Contributors: George Brown Jr. Laurie Z. Baron James Hart Brumm Kathleen Hart Brumm John W. Coakley Russell L. Gasero Eugene Heideman I. John Hesselink Allan Janssen Mary L. Kansfield Normal Kansfield Jacob E. Nyenhuis J. Jeffery Tyler Dennis Voskuil
Liber A
"Liber A of the Collegiate Church archives contains detailed 17th-century records of the Reformed Dutch Church of the City of New York, including correspondence, texts of legal documents, and lists of names of consistory members. Especially significant are records pertaining to the granting in 1696 of the royal charter of incorporation of the Church, and records relating to donations for, and construction of the church building on Garden Street. Nearly all of these pages were written out in the late 1600s, by Domine Henricus Selijns (1636-1701). Most of them are in Dutch, with a few portions (such as records of official governmental proclamations) in English. The historical records of Liber ...
Old Wing Mission
Old Wing Mission is a historical treasure of rare documents giving the account of Reverend George N. and Arvilla Smith in their work and social interactions with Native Americans at a Christian mission colony. / "On the American frontier natives and newcomers met in many places, but nowhere was the encounter more profound than at the Christian mission. Here missionaries sought not only to save Indian souls but to Americanize them. . . . As told through a remarkable set of original sources, the story of the Old Wing Mission reveals all the tensions and complexities when one culture seeks to change another. Old Wing Mission offers readers an opportunity to hear voices on both sides of the cultural divide. . . . Deserves a wide and appreciative audience." James P. Ronda, University of Tulsa / "Meticulous. . . . The Smith diaries recount the trials of frontier missionaries. . . . Academicians, Christian scholars, and readers who love history will all benefit from this high-quality work." James M. McClurken, Michigan State University
Divided by a Common Heritage
Ecclesiastical introspection can lead to banal, partial analysis. But not in this book from four social scientists who have taken a long and discriminating, yet loving look at their own denominations. The Hope College and Calvin College authors of this book care deeply about the traditions, practices, and convictions of the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church. Their skillful use of extensive survey information to chart the current positions of the two church bodies offers a model of clarity for scholars of American religion. For members of the CRC and RCA, the book offers sympathetic insight into the present character of both denominations and their prospects for the future. -- Mark A. Noll University of Notre Dame
Kingdom, Office, and Church
A. A. van Ruler is one of the most influential twentieth-century theologians from the Netherlands. One of the many challenging aspects of his work is his theology of the kingdom of God and its relationship to the church and its ecclesiastical offices. Allan J. Janssen draws on extensive pastoral and ecclesial experience as well as closely reasoned analysis to draw out the implications of van Ruler's theology for the church today.
Son of Seccession
"Son of Secession" is a challenge to our understanding of thistorical origins of the Christian Reformed Church as well as the church today. Janet Sjaarda Sheeres has given us a moving, sympathetic and exciting biography of Douwe Vander Werp, one of the key figures in the Netherlands "Afgescheiden" of 1834 and a principal minister in the early development of the Christian Reformed Church. Vander Werp was a man zealously committed to his understanding of God's Word and it implications for his life, even when it required the painful sacrifice of three secessions. Sheeres's sociological observations add interesting insights into Vander Werp's fascinating and fractious times.
Henry J. Kuiper
This singular biographical study will interest readers wanting to better understand the Christian Reformed Church during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, particularly in comparison with the Reformed Church in America.
