"We live presently under a waning moon" : Nicolaus Martin Steffens as leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in years of transition (1878-1895), George Harinck, Netherland-America Foundation Visiting Research Fellow, 2008 Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan

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"We live presently under a waning moon" : Nicolaus Martin Steffens as leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in years of transition (1878-1895), George Harinck, Netherland-America Foundation Visiting Research Fellow, 2008 Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan

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Nicolaus Martin Steffens as leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in years of transition (1878-1895)

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George Harinck, Netherland-America Foundation Visiting Research Fellow, 2008 Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan

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• "We live presently under a waning moon" : Nicolaus Martin Steffens as leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in years of transition (1878-1895)

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• Holland, Michigan, Van Raalte Press, ©2013

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index

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List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Author's biographical note -- Introduction -- Wanderlust got hold of him: In Ostfriesland and beyond -- I knew what I did when I moved to America: From Emden to Zeeland -- He could work here with better effect than somewhere else: The Masonic controversy and after -- No one may require from us that we leave the east: free churches and reformed fissures -- We live presently under a waning moon: Leading the reformed church in the west -- Don't rest before all ministers have Dr. Kuyper's encyclopedia on their shelves: Steffens and neo-Calvinism -- It seems as if our seminary has been put in the corner: The difficult start of Western Theological Seminary -- I consider it to be my task to defend reformed doctrine against all attacks by whomsoever: Steffens' editorship of De Hope -- I fear his departure in the coup de grace for the school: A crisis in Steffens' professorate -- I am between two millstones: Steffens' departure from west Michigan -- Conclusion -- Steffens' letters to Abraham Kuyper -- Bibliography -- English translations of Dutch footnotes -- Index

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868447057

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23 cm.

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xv, 204 pages

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9780980111187

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