K.H. Miskotte and the Dutch Reformed Churches during the Occupation of The Netherlands
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This article is about the Dutch theologian K.H. Miskotte and his theologically based resistance against the Nazi occupation regime (1940â1945). The leadership in Dutch churches chose a cautious and often unprincipled approach to dealing with the occupier. Miskotte, along with some others, pointed to a different way. He wanted a better resistance, founded in the Bible. He read the Bible as the testimony of the Liberator-God who frees his people from slavery to the gods and powers of this world that blind and enslave people. Miskotteâs book Biblical ABCâ¯s, though created under the challenging circumstances of occupation by a Nazi regime, also points the way for today to a way of reading the Bible that is current and surprising.
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K.H. Miskotte and the Dutch Reformed Churches during the Occupation of The Netherlands
In: Journal of Reformed TheologySearch for other papers by Niels den Hertog in
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Abstract
This article is about the Dutch theologian K.H. Miskotte and his theologically based resistance against the Nazi occupation regime (1940â1945). The leadership in Dutch churches chose a cautious and often unprincipled approach to dealing with the occupier. Miskotte, along with some others, pointed to a different way. He wanted a better resistance, founded in the Bible. He read the Bible as the testimony of the Liberator-God who frees his people from slavery to the gods and powers of this world that blind and enslave people. Miskotteâs book Biblical ABCâ¯s, though created under the challenging circumstances of occupation by a Nazi regime, also points the way for today to a way of reading the Bible that is current and surprising.
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| Abstract Views | 363 | 73 | 7 |
| Full Text Views | 30 | 4 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 73 | 10 | 0 |
