Unbelief and Revolution (Lexham Classics)

Groen van Prinsterer, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Harry Van Dyke

• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781683592280
• eBook ISBN: 9781683592297
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Scripture Index

OLD TESTAMENT
GENESIS
15:16	44n
37–50	xxvi
EXODUS
32:1	110n
1 SAMUEL
2:30	xxxvii(n)
1 KINGS
3:8–12	27n
12:10–14	217n
PSALMS
2:10–11	29n
14:1	14n
19:1	6n
33:12	xxvii
106:6	44n
119:104	12n
119:25	248
PROVERBS
7:27	130n
ISAIAH
9:2	112n
26:9	211n
57:12–13	131n
JEREMIAH
2:19	xxvii
6:19	xxvii
EZEKIEL
37:1–14	10n
DANIEL
11:36	122n
MICAH
4:5	26n
ZECHARIAH
4:6	187n
NEW TESTAMENT
MATTHEW
5	xxvi
6:23	198n
11:25	247n
12:43–45	82n
18:7	152n
19:26	111n
22:21	28n
23:8–10	18n
24:21	233n
28:20	xxxvii(n)
MARK
1:15	81n
9:24	248n
LUKE
12:32	xxxvii(n)
18:13	248n
23:34	7n
JOHN
3:36	81n
14:6	200n
Acts
5:29	7n
16:31	81n
ROMANS
1:21–25	111n
10:2	70n
12:16	247n
13:1	7n, 25n
13:4	26n
1 CORINTHIANS
1:19–31	132n
1:19	xxxviii(n)
2:14	74n, 90n
3:6	245n
15:32	93n
2 CORINTHIANS
4:18	92n
6:15	29n
10:4	81n
10:5	248n
11:14	87n, 233n
EPHESIANS
2:5	137
2:10	26n
2:12	91n
6:6	27n
6:16	82n
COLOSSIANS
1:20	82n
2 THESSALONIANS
2:4	122n
2:8	233n
1 TIMOTHY
4:1	233n
4:8	xxvii
2 TIMOTHY
3:5	200n
HEBREWS
4:12	81n
1 PETER
2:13	74n
2:18	25n
1 JOHN
1:7	81n
5:19	29n
REVELATION
2:10	69n
3:17	131n

Notes

Translator’s Introduction

1Walloon churches were originally founded by Calvinist refugees fleeing north from the southern Low Countries around 1540 and again in large numbers from France in the year 1685 when the legal status of Calvinists was revoked in that country. In 1815 the Walloon churches in the Netherlands were absorbed into the national Dutch Reformed Church. Found in the major cities, they conduct services in the French language. Their theological position may be described as moderate Calvinist.

2A leading figure in this school of historiography was the great German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886).

3This apt comparison can be found in Herman Paul, “Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer: A Critical Appraisal,” Fides et Historia 36.2 (2004), 69.

4Cf. G. Groen van Prinsterer, Briefwisseling, V, 118.

5M. Elisabeth Kluit, Het protestante Réveil in Nederland en daarbuiten, 1815–1865 (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1970), 433–36.

6Some 140 congregations seceded from the national church in order to preserve doctrinal purity.

7Adherents of this school of theology, such as Petrus Hofstede de Groot (1802–1886) and Willem Muurling (1805–1882), held that the importation of Calvinism in the Low Countries during the sixteenth century had been an unfortunate development and that a better version of Christianity, more suited to the national character, was found in the indigenous, more “evangelical” spirituality of the pre-Reformation order of the Brethren of the Common Life represented by such figures as Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) and Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1457–1536). The theology of the Groningen divines was a fusion of “no creed but Christ” and “no doctrine but life,” with a distinct appreciation for education for moral improvement.

8Cf. E. H. Kossmann, The Low Countries, 1780–1940 (Oxford, 1978), 129–38, 152, 182–84.

9Ministers at their ordination no longer had to subscribe to Reformed doctrine “inasmuch as” it was in conformity with Scripture, but only “insofar as.”

10H. Dooyeweerd, “Het historisch element in Groen’s staatsleer,” in Groen’s “Ongeloof en Revolutie”; een bundel studiën (Wageningen, Netherlands, 1949), 118–37, 120, passim.

11H. E. S. Woldring, De Franse Revolutie: Een aktuele uitdaging (Kampen, Netherlands: Kok, 1989), 150.

12The reference to “isolation” has often been misunderstood. Groen meant by it the engagement of public affairs with a strategy of ideologica...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Translator’s Introduction
• Preface
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Lecture I: Introduction
• Lecture II: The Wisdom of the Ages
• Lecture III: Anti-Revolutionary Principles
• Lecture IV: Historic Forms of Government
• Lecture V: Abuses
• Lecture VI: The Perversion of Constitutional Law
• Lecture VII: The Reformation
• Lecture VIII: Unbelief
• Lecture IX: Unbelief (Continued)
• Lecture X: The Conflict with Nature and Law
• Lecture XI: First Phase: Preparation (Till 1789)
• Lecture XII: Second Phase: Development (1789–94)
• Lecture XIII: The Reign of Terror
• Lecture XIV: Overview: 1794–1845
• Lecture XV: Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Names Index
• Subject Index
• Scripture Index