Rethinking Secularization Reformed Reactions

NOTE: Series number is not an integer: III

List of Figures

viii

(1)

List of Tables

ix

(4)

Foreword

xiii

(2)

Ronald A. Wells

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction

1

(12)

Gerard Dekker

Donald A. Luidens

Rodger R. Rice

Section I Looking Backward

13

(80)

1 Modernity and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands: Bargaining or Surrender?

13

(12)

Gerard Dekker

2 The Chruch Must Make Its Influence Flet: RCA Responses to Modernity

25

(20)

Lynn Winkels Japinga

3 Calvinists in the Second City: The Dutch Reformed of Chicago's West Side

45

(18)

Robert P. Swierenga

4 Dutch Orthodox Protestants between Isolation and Accommodation: Institutional Developments, 1945-1980

63

(18)

Dirk Th. Kuiper

5 Vision Revision: Neo-Calvinism in the Netherlands and Canada

81

(12)

Harry A. Van Belle

Section II Strangers in Strange Lands

93

(72)

6 Strangers in Their Own Land: Calvinists in an Arminian Culture

93

(18)

Dennis N. Voskuil

7 The Struggle for a New Identity within the Reformed Community: A South African Persepctive

111

(12)

Bonganjalo Goba

8 The Struggle for Christian Higher Education in Japan: A Case Study of Meiji Gakuin University

123

(14)

Mark R. Mullins

9 Boundary Maintenance and Its Evidence in the Case of Canadian Dutch-Calvinists

137

(14)

Bradley G. Breems

10 Prophecy, Prayer, Protest, and Penetration: Dutcn Orthodox Calvinism Confronting Modernity

151

(14)

Hijme C. Stoffels

Section III Living With Modernity

165

(114)

11 Three Oritentations within the Reformed Protestant Churches of the Netherlands

165

(12)

Marthy P. Veerman

12 Immanentistic Beliefs in God: Modern Pantheism

177

(24)

Hendrik J. C. Pieterse

13 Transforming Society vs. Purifying the Church: Iowa Reformed, Amish, and Mennonites as a Case Study

201

(18)

Michael L. Yoder

14 The Influence of Secularization on the Church: Christian Reformed Ministers' Perceptions

219

(28)

James M. Penning

Corwin E. Smidt

15 Intra-- and Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Practices in the Reformed Church in America: A Case for Individual-Level Secularization

247

(18)

Roger J. Nemeth

Donald A. Luidens

16 The Imapct of Modernity on Pine Rest Christian Hospital

265

(14)

Richard E. Houskamp

Section IV Looking Forward

279

(6)

Conclusions: A Resounding Gong or a Tinkling Bell?

279

(6)

Gerard Dekker

Donald A. Luidens

Rodger R. Rice

About the Contributors

285

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