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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 ...
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.
Elim
"Founded in 1948 by the Dutch Reformed community of Chicago, Elim Christian School was the first within the vaunted Christian Reformed educational system nationwide to provide educational services to those with developmental and physical limitations. It remains the only Reformed residential school in North America for special needs children, and its workshop, Oasis Enterprises, provides occupational training and meaningful employment for nearly two hundred adults after they "aged out" of school. In the past fifty-five years, this unique institution has been an "oasis in the desert of disability" for more than 5,000 persons ages three to sixty-five." "Elim, the first history of the institutio...
Aunt Tena, Called to Serve
When Tena Huizenga felt the call to serve as a missionary nurse to Africa, she followed that call and served seventeen years at Lupwe, Nigeria, during a pivotal era in world missions. As she ministered to the natives, she recorded her thoughts and feelings in a diary and in countless letters to family and friends over 350 in her first year alone. / Through her eyes, we see the Lupwe mission, Tena's colleagues, and the many native helpers. Aunt Tena (Nigerians called all female missionaries "Aunt") tells this profoundly human story. Interesting in its own right, the book will also prove invaluable to historians, sociologists, and genealogists as they mine this rich resource.
