Sources of Secession: The Netherlands Hervormde Kerk on the Eve of the Dutch Immigration to the Midwest. By Gerrit J. TenZythoff. The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America 17. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmanns Publishing Company, 1987. xxii + 189 pp. $12.95.

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-385
Author(s):  
Elton J. Bruins
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
Reformed Church In America ◽  
Grand Rapids

Non-Geographic Classes? Reformed Geography

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Leon van den Broeke
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Reformed Church In America ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
The Church

Abstract The Reformed Church in America is wrestling with an interesting question in ecclesiology and church order: is there a place within the church for so-called non-geographic classes. Non-geographic classes are classes which are not formed around a geographic regional principal, but by agreement in theological perspective or a peculiar way that a congregation is shaped. The question central to this article is then: is there a place in Reformed churches for non-geographical classes? In answering this question, the following will be considered: a similar proposal from the Gereformeerde Bond in the Netherlands Reformed Church in 1998; the geographic-regional principle; the Walloon Classis; the Classis of Holland; the Reformed Church in America; Flying, diocesan and titular bishops and finally a conclusion.

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