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The Nieuwe Kerk (Dutch: [ˈniu.ə ˈkɛr(ə)k], lit. ' New Church ') [1] is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parish, it now belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands Reformed Congregations hold to infant baptism but believe that although being baptized, each child still carries the personal necessity of being born again by the inward work of the Holy Spirit. Baptism places a child into an external (or outward) relationship to the covenant of grace, just as the Israelites who passed through ...
The Dutch Reformed Church (Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ɦɛrˈvɔr(ə)mdə ˈkɛr(ə)k], abbreviated NHK [ˌɛnɦaːˈkaː]) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. [1]
Second Dutch Reformed Church (New Amsterdam) (c.1643) -- The second church was located within Fort Amsterdam's walls. The stone church had a spire with a weathercock, and was the tallest structure in the city. After the fall of New Amsterdam to the British, the structure was reused as a military garrison church for the Episcopal faith. [1]
Nieuwezijds Kapel 1664–1665. Nieuwezijds Kapel (Dutch - New Side's Chapel), or Heilige Stede (Dutch - holy site) or Chapel of the Heilige Stede refers to a site in Amsterdam that includes shops and a Dutch Reformed church built in 1908 on the site of a church once called the Heilige Stede, originally built in the 15th century to replace a chapel that burned in a city fire of 1452.
This church body arose in 1944 out of the so-called Liberation (Vrijmaking) from the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, when many pastors and members refused to go along with the General Synod's demand to hold to "presumed regeneration of infants" at their baptism. Klaas Schilder played an important role in the Liberation. There were 270 ...
The entire Reformed Dogmatics is structured on the Trinitarian formula of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with the exception of volume 1 as a prolegomena. Bavinck held that the Trinity was the essential principle of theology and structures his worldview according to the unity-in-diversity of the Trinity: "The Trinity reveals God to us as the ...
The Free Reformed Churches see the church as a community of people who believe in Jesus Christ. [4] They believe that the church is a divine institution, for three reasons: [4] It is made up of God's people. [5] It is the body of Christ. [6] It is the temple of the Holy Spirit and is guided by His teaching. [7]