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5 unusual facts about Dutch Reformed Church


Dutch Reformed Church

Former US Presidents Martin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt, both of Dutch descent, were affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church

Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen

In 1701 he was appointed ordinary professor of Oriental languages and ecclesiastical history at the Protestant gymnasium of Hanau, and in 1703 became professor of theology in that institution (Bashuysen's father was preacher in the Dutch Reformed Church of the city).

Jacob Acontius

On his arrival in London he joined the Dutch Reformed Church in Austin Friars, but he was "infected with Anabaptistical and Arian opinions" and was excluded from the sacrament by Edmund Grindal, bishop of London.

Pieter Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman was born in Zonnemaire, a small town on the island of Schouwen-Duiveland, Netherlands, to Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Willemina Worst.

Reza de Wet

The State-controlled radio and television quite successfully fed us a sanitized version of the truth and from the pulpits of the Dutch Reformed Church religious leaders extolled the Nationalists’ version of ‘loving thy neighbour as thyself’ in the comforting guise of ‘separate but equal’.


James Westfall Thompson

Born to a Dutch reform minister's family in Pella, Iowa, Thompson received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1892 and a PhD in history from the newly founded University of Chicago in 1895.

Louis Gerlach Pareau

Pareau was one of the three founders of the so-called "Groningen School", a progressive movement within the Dutch Reformed Church.

Orange County, Indiana

The name Orange derives from the Dutch Protestant House of Orange, which acquired the English throne with the accession of King William III in 1689, following the Glorious Revolution.

Willem Muurling

Muurling was a prominent member of the so-called "Groningen School", a progressive movement within the Dutch Reformed Church.


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Cradock, Eastern Cape

Interestingly, the design of the Dutch Reformed Church building is based on that of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

George Bethune

George Washington Bethune (1805–1862), preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church

Henry Martyn Scudder

In 1850, he founded the mission American Arcot Mission for the board of the Dutch Reformed Church at Arcot, where he labored until 1864.

Kebatinan

Christianity was brought to Java by missionaries, first from the Dutch Reformed Church, and in the 20th century also by Roman Catholics, such as the Jesuits and the Divine Word Missionaries.