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	The Reformed Church in the Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The doctrines of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands are encapsualted in the following articles of faith: the Heidelberg Catechism, the Dutch Confession of Faith (Confessio Belgica), and the Canons of Dordt.
		When the reformation arrived in Holland in the 1520s the region was under the control of the Spanish Catholic emperor Charles V. Consequently the reformers had to struggle against a monarch prepared to use the most brutal form of repression in order to impede the spread of Protestantism.
		In 1798 the Dutch Reformed Church was disestablished, and in 1816 it was renamed the Reformed Church in the Netherlands.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/cep/rcn.html (451 words)

	Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland; IPA pronunciation: /"ne:dərlant/) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that is formed by the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
		The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated and geographically low-lying countries in the world (its name literally means "low country") and is famous for its dikes, windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, bicycles and social tolerance.
		Political scientists consider The Netherlands a classic example of a consociational state, at least in part caused by the necessity in the Netherlands since the middle ages for different cities to cooperate in order to fight the water (different cities were at the time like different countries by today's standards, and often at war).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Netherlands (3922 words)

	REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The Reformed Church in Holland emerged in the 16th cent., after Calvinism gained influence in the northern provinces of the Netherlands.
		Until the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, the Reformed Church was the established church of the colony.
		The church embraces many of the historic colonial churches of New York and New Jersey, the denominational stronghold; fresh immigration from the Netherlands in the mid-19th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/re/RefChAm.html (502 words)

	Dutch Reformed Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The Dutch Reformed Church or Netherlands Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk (NHK)) is a denomination of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin.
		It is the oldest Reformed church in the Netherlands and formerly enjoyed status as the state church.
		On 1 May 2004 the church merged with the Reformed Church in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, GKN) and the Dutch Lutheran Church (Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dutch-Reformed-Church.htm (333 words)

	An Untitled Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		It is the principle of the Lutheran churches.
		The interpretation of this passage by the Reformed Presbyterian Church is based upon a particular exegesis of the text which is referred to in the last sentence of Paragraph 5, Chapter 21 in the Testimony.
		According to the Reformed Presbyterian Testimony, Chapter 21, Paragraph 6, "The Psalms are to be sung without the accompaniment of instruments, which are not a part of the New Testament pattern of worship." It is recognized that such instruments were a commanded part of the Old Testament worship as is reflected in the psalms themselves.
	users.churchserve.com /pa/rprpcofrp/hbh1.html (7384 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Reformed Churches
		The denomination known as "The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America" until 1867, when the present name was adopted, asserts with Protestants generally the sole sufficiency of the Scriptures as a rule of faith.
		In 1910 the Dutch Reformed Church numbered 728 ministers, 684 churches, and 116,815 communicants (statistics of Dr. Carroll in the "Christian Advocate", New York, 26 Jan., 1911; this statistical authority is cited throughout for the United States).
		Churches 0f some importance at present exist in the country and are organized as the Reformed Churches of Cape Colony, of the Orange Free State, of the Transvaal, and of Natal.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12710a.htm (1546 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Christian Reformed Church in America
		History: Many members of the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands (a group founded after members seceded from the Reformed Church of the Netherlands) immigrated to the United States in 1847 after enduring severe famine and religious persecution in their native country (Melton, 302).
		The church practices a theology based upon the ideas of John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and other leaders of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland (this being a sister movement to the German Reformation of which Martin Luther was the primary leader) (Lippy and Williams, 511).
		The church is ultimately governed by a general synod made up of two ministers and 60 members (each classis sends two members) which convenes two or four times per year (Melton, 302).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/ChReform.html (1517 words)

	St. Thomas Reformed Church - St. Thomas,VA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The St. Thomas Reformed Church is the oldest congregation in the Virgin Islands and a member of the oldest denomination with a continuous ministry in the United States.
		The first church was built in the mid-1670's on the savannah east of the Fort in the area known as Barrcks Yard and remained in use to at least 1731.
		The congregation was transferred from the Reformed Church in the Netherlands to the Reformed Church in America in 1827.
	netministries.org /see/churches/ch00204 (286 words)

	BCRC - Who we are
		Still under persecution the church held its first synod at Emden in 1571 and was officially recognised as the church of the Republic Of The United Netherlands at the ‘Peace of Westphalia’.
		The national church in the Netherlands was split late in the late 16th century.
		Their Church Order was a modified version of that of the Christian Reformed Church in North America and from them too the new denomination bought its first hymn book and Catechism material.
	www.bcrc.crca.org.au /who.htm (1221 words)

	ACT OF SECESSION OR RETURN (1834)
		in the Netherlands Reformed Church, in the mutilation or denial of the
		A majority of the churches of the Secession would later join the Union of 1892, from which the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland) would arise.
		It appears courtesy of the diligent efforts of John Smith, a fourth-year student at the Theological College of the Canadian Reformed Churches in Hamilton, ON.
	spindleworks.com /library/smith/scaneva.htm (1210 words)

	Protestant Church in the Netherlands
		As from May 1st, 2004, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands is the continuation of three former churches, the Netherlands Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
		In the final years of the unification process the three churches, 'together on the way' (Dutch: Samen op Weg), referred to themselves as the Uniting Protestant Churches in the Netherlands (UPCN).
		From July 12th through July 26th the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) will meet in its next assembly (read more) on the premises of the national service centre of the Protestants Church in the Netherlands.
	www.protestantchurch.nl (345 words)

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		The Protestants population is divided among several denominations, the largest being the Dutch Reformed church.
		The Netherlands has no official religion but the Reformed Church has had close association with the Dutch State since the forming of the Dutch Republic.
		While the Netherlands statistics indicate a low level of drug use and drug-related deaths in comparison to other European countries, changes in drug laws have been forthcoming.
	www.pitt.edu /~ethics/Countries/Netherlands/culture.html (1058 words)

	Grand Rapids, Heritage Netherlands Reformed
		In 1877 the congregation established ties with the church of Lodi, NJ, choosing the denominational name of Netherlands Reformed.
		church left the denomination; it returned in 1987 and is now known as the Netherlands Reformed Church of Grand Rapids or the Covell Ave.
		This was resolved in July 1993, when the church was dissolved and two new congregations emerged: a continuing First Netherlands Reformed Congregation, now located on Beckwith Ave.
	reformed.net /hnrc/mi/gr (635 words)

	The Covenant Of Grace
		After the Netherlands was established as a monarchy by the Congress of Vienna (1815) and William I returned from eighteen years of exile to assume the throne, changes were made to church life which were so far reaching that a secession was almost inevitable.
		Although it would be a gross over-simplification to say that developments in certain reformed churches in the Netherlands (and in North America) are as a direct result of Kuyper's covenant views, the impact and subsequent development of these views cannot be discounted in searching for the root of the problems which has affected these churches.
		The decisions of Utrecht, 1905 were adopted by the Christian Reformed Church of North America at the synod of Kalamazoo, 1908 (and rescinded, although not declared in error, by the CRC synod of 1962, in order to facilitate talks with other reformed bodies, such as the Canadian and the Free Reformed).
	spindleworks.com /library/schouls/Covenant03.htm (8035 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Reformed Church in America @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA [Reformed Church in America] Protestant denomination founded in colonial times by settlers from the Netherlands and formerly known as the Dutch Reformed Church.
		In 1857 a group of Dutch settlers in Michigan separated from the Reformed Church and organized the Christian Reformed Church ; in 1922 that body received most of the American congregation of the Reformed Church of Hungary.
		Bibliography: See M. Hansen, The Reformed Church in the Netherlands, 1340-1840 (1884); J. Birch, The Pioneering Church in the Mohawk Valley (1955).
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:RefChAm&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (574 words)

	Basic course: Lesson 5
		The Reformed churches met for the first time in 1568 for the so-called Wesel Convention (thus abroad in the Lower Rhine).
		At this synod a model church constitution for the later Reformed churches in the Netherlands was agreed upon.
		Further church divisions in the 20th Century have led to the existence of 17 Reformed churches in the Netherlands today, of which the majority are admittedly very small.
	www.reformiert-online.net:8080 /t/eng/bildung/grundkurs/gesch/lek5/index3.jsp (1309 words)

	The Reformed Ecumenical Council: 4/04.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Each of the three churches that will form the new denomination held their final synods, finishing their business and reflecting on their past.
		Heetderks was also the last moderator of the Reformed Churches in The Netherlands (GKN).
		Stelwagen, chairperson of the denominational board that mediates church conflicts, said "the problems are greater than [had been] foreseen.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=8360 (418 words)

	Ecumenical Contacts - Reformed Churches of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		When the Church of Jesus Christ is institutionally divided, both in doctrine and in practice, she is unable to express the oneness that our Lord prayed for and the love that will show that we are His disciples (John 13:34,35).
		In addition, for many years the RCNZ were a member church of the Reformed Ecumenical Council, an international body of Reformed churches.
		However, in 1988, our churches withdrew from the REC due to their failure to discipline the Reformed Church in the Netherlands (GKN) over their toleration of the sin of homosexuality.
	www.rcnz.org.nz /who/files/contact.htm (508 words)

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		We believe in a church structure based on councils because we are not prepared to leave authority only with one person and because it is the inter-action of committed Christians that mirrors and reflects the relationships in the Godhead which we seek to embody in our church life.
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	Theology Today - Vol 15, No. 4 - January 1959 - ARTICLE - Three Reformed Liturgies
		The French-speaking Churches in the Canton of Berne are certainly one of the smallest groups, barely twenty-five parishes.
		While the Church in the Canton of Berne is one of the oldest and strongest in the family of Reformed Churches, it is overwhelmingly a German-speaking Church with only a handful of French-speaking congregations.
		The Reformed Church in the Netherlands, national both in extent and tradition, is in a very different situation from the small group of French-speaking congregations in Berne.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1959/v15-4-article6.htm (4766 words)

	Communications and Editorial
		The Church of England and the Methodist Church are producing study group material on An Anglican/Methodist Covenant and theological briefing material, and are running day courses for their ecumenical officers to brief them on how to introduce the report.
		The anglican Church in Wales is beginning to formally consider the revised proposals for an Ecumenical Bishop in East Cardiff.
		As the Britain and Ireland representative on the executive committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Church, Elizabeth Nash was invited to report annually in person to the committee, once her term as a member ends this summer.
	www.urc.org.uk /our_work/committees/ecumenical/news/spring_2002.htm (841 words)

	The English Reformed Church - Amsterdam,NH
		The first Church building in the Begijnhof, a courtyard of houses surrounding a garden, provided a Chapel and place of worship for the lay community of Beguines which lay on the edge of Amsterdam in the 14th century, before 1392.
		The stone tower from the original church was incorporated into a new stone building erected at the end of the 15th century.
		The building was extended in the latter part of the seventeenth century, officially became the property of the congregation in 1812, and was extensively restored by the congregation and the Association of Friends in the 1970's.
	netministries.org /see/churches.exe/ch02358 (510 words)

	Reformed Church in America
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		The Reformed Church in America has voted at its General Synod to delete 22-year-old "conscience clauses".(ordination of women as priests)(Brief Article) (The Christian Century)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0841403.html (775 words)

	News Tip: Schism Has Long and Powerful Role in Christianity
		The role of gays and lesbians in church life is just the latest in a long line of issues that various churches have argued, fought and, sometimes, even divided over, Steinmetz says.
		Churches have split over all manner of issues, from seemingly trivial squabbles to profound doctrinal disagreements, Steinmetz says.
		For example, a reformed church in the Netherlands once divided over the question of whether the snake in the Garden of Eden actually talked to Eve as reported in Genesis.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2003/08/schismtip_print.htm (444 words)

	Covenant United Reformed Church - Kalamazoo, Michigan - United Reformed Churches
		The URCNA is a young denomination that came into existence in November 1995, and in November 2004 was received as a provisional member of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council.
		Our beliefs are summarized in the Ecumenical Creeds, shared by all churches worthy of the name Christian, and by the Three Forms of Unity, three confessions widely used by Reformed churches with roots in the Netherlands.
		To promote good order in the churches, our Reformed forefathers drafted and adopted rules and regulations for the government of the Reformed churches at several Reformed synods in the late sixteenth century.
	www.covenant-urc.org /urchrchs.html (639 words)

	St. Thomas Reformed Church
		The St. Thomas Reformed Church was established around 1660, and is one of the oldest congregations in the Virgin Islands.
		The cornerstone of the present church was laid September 18, 1844 and completed and consecrated on February 8, 1848.
		Identified by the Danes as the American church, the baccalaureate service to commemorate the transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States was held here on February 18, 1917.
	www.stthomasreformedchurch.org (258 words)

	CANONS OF DORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		This Synod had a truly international character, since it was composed not only of the delegates of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands but also of twenty-seven delegates from foreign countries.
		The Synod of Dordrecht was held in view of the serious disturbance in the Reformed Church by the rise and spread of Arminianism.
		Each of the Canons consists of a positive and a negative part, the former being an exposition of the Reformed doctrine on the subject, and the latter a repudiation of the corresponding Arminian error.
	www.almondvalley.org /creeds/canons_of_dort.htm (287 words)

	Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the
		The Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church was organized in 1834 by David Stewart (for whom the Southfield Public Library is named) and his son in law John Parks.
		The church building was built 30 years later, during the Civil War.
	www.reformed.com /srpc (216 words)

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