Download or read book A Digest and Index of the Minutes of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America 1906 1957 written by Mildred W. Schuppert and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference guide to the Minutes of the General Synod, this volume contains an alphabetical listing of the persons and subjects referred to in the minutes, along with a brief summary of action taken.
Download or read book Letters to Hazel written by Mary L. Kansfield and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dutch Chicago written by Robert P. Swierenga and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch Chicago Robert Swierenga offers a colorful, comprehensive history of the Dutch Americans who have made their home in the Windy City since the mid-1800s. The original Chicago Dutch were a polyglot lot from all social strata, regions, and religions of the Netherlands. Three-quarters were Calvinists; the rest included Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, Socialists, Jews, and the nominally churched. Whereas these latter Dutch groups assimilated into the American culture around them, the Dutch Reformed settled into a few distinct enclaves -- the Old West Side, Englewood, and Roseland and South Holland -- where they stuck together, building an institutional infrastructure of churches, schools, societies, and shops that enabled them to live from cradle to grave within their own communities. Focusing largely but not exclusively on the Reformed group of Dutch folks in Chicago, Swierenga recounts how their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak played out over time. Mostly of rural origins in the northern Netherlands, these Hollanders in Chicago liked to work with horses and go into business for themselves. Picking up ashes and garbage, jobs that Americans despised, spelled opportunity for the Dutch, and they came to monopolize the garbage industry. Their independence in business reflected the privacy they craved in their religious and educational life. Church services held in the Dutch language kept outsiders at bay, as did a comprehensive system of private elementary and secondary schools intended to inculcate youngsters with the Dutch Reformed theological and cultural heritage. Not until the world wars did the forces of Americanization finally break down the walls, and the Dutch passed into the mainstream. Only in their churches today, now entirely English speaking, does the Dutch cultural memory still linger. Dutch Chicago is the first serious work on its subject, and it promises to be the definitive history. Swierenga's lively narrative, replete with historical detail and anecdotes, is accompanied by more than 250 photographs and illustrations. Valuable appendixes list Dutch-owned garbage and cartage companies in greater Chicago since 1880 as well as Reformed churches and schools. This book will be enjoyed by readers with Dutch roots as well as by anyone interested in America's rich ethnic diversity.
Download or read book Meeting Each Other in Doctrine Liturgy and Government written by Daniel J. Meeter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gathered at Albany written by Allan J. Janssen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly researched volume that tells the story of the Classis of Albany, New York, from its beginning in 1771 up to 1979. Janssen's account of this historically significant local judicatory in the RCA shows that a classis can take bold and daring initiatives to effect change in both church and society. His work offers a creative and promising new model for local Reformed church historiography.
Download or read book Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America 1628 1992 written by Russell L. Gasero and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reformed Church in America written by Marvin D. Hoff and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoff chronicles and analyzes the RCA's creative experiments in organizing for mission in America and around the world, recording the successes and shortcomings of a great variety of structures through which the church seeks to do Christ's work. While the book covers more than two centuries of mission work, the primary emphasis is on the period from 1945 to the present.
Download or read book The Reformed Church in China 1842 1951 written by Gerald Francis De Jong and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deacons Accounts 1652 1674 First Dutch Reformed Church of Beverwyck Albany New York written by Janny Venema and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Servant Gladly written by Jack D. Klunder and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays addresses a broad range of subjects that have occupied Beardslee during his long, distinguished career as pastor, missionary, ecumenist, teacher, consultant, archivist, theologian, and historian.
Download or read book The Church Speaks written by James I. Cook and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Call of Africa written by Morrell F. Swart and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 29 records the story of the RCA's first fifty years of mission in sub-Saharan Africa, told through the eyes of a missionary who has worked for half a century in this difficult region of the world. A fascinating account of the church's work in a foreign land, this volume also includes twenty-seven illustrations and six maps of the sub-Sahara.
Download or read book Word and World written by James W. Van Hoeven and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginning the Reformed Church gave a prominent place to intellectual discourse and insisted that its theology inform and judge all its actions. This book examines the history of that discourse and defines the theology that remains a crucial element in the denomination's identity.
Download or read book The Americanization of a Congregation written by Elton J. Bruins and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vision for a Christian College written by Gordon John Van Wylen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays constitutes a mini-history of 15 years in the life of Hope College. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Download or read book The Arabian Mission s Story written by Lewis R. Scudder and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 30 recounts the eighty-year-long history of the RCA's mission work in the Middle East, written by a missionary who has spent decades in the Arabian Gulf. Including instructive discussion of missiological themes as well as the narrative of the church's daily work in Arabia, this volume is not only of denominational interest but will also provide important insights for mission students and those actively involved in a mission field.
Download or read book Vision from the Hill written by John W. Beardslee and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest Protestant seminary in North America, New Brunswick Theological Seminary has frequently been in the forefront of Christian thought. This book, published on the occasion of the Seminary's bicentennial, brings together essays on missions, social action, and biblical scholarship, written by New Brunswick professors and alumni ranging from John Henry Livingston (1746-1825) to A. J. Muste (1885-1967).
