Protestant theology and modernity in the nineteenth-century Netherlands / Arie L. Molendijk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molendijk, Arie L., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--Netherlands--History--19th century.

Theology.

Costa, Isaäc da, 1798-1860.

Costa, Isaäc da.

Pierson, A. (Allard), 1831-1896.

Pierson, A.

Netherlands.

New England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

'Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands' examines how Dutch Protestant thinkers and theologicans met the challenges of the rapidly modernising world around them. It shows that the 19th-century saw theology fundamentally transformed and reinvented in a variety of ways.

Contents:

I. Isaac da Costa. Isaac da Costa and the Zeitgeist

The conversion of Isaac da Costa

II. Theological modernism. Allard Pierson's farewell to Christianity and his new 'agnostic' worldview

Dutch Protestant modernism

Abraham Kuyper's critique of theological modernism

III. Abraham Kuyper and pillarization. New-Calvinist culture Protestantism

Abraham Kuyper's religio-political rhetoric

Pillarization

IV. Theology revisited. Historical-critical analysis of the Bible and the rise of science of religion.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Molendijk, Arie L. Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

ISBN:

0-19-265288-5

0-19-192447-4

0-19-265287-7