The August 1944 Liberation bundle

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Cherish history! Study it, discern its strengths and weaknesses and be equipped for future events as they roll your way, demanding your insight and wisdom. Particularly where it concerns church history. Every past controversy offers lessons for the future. The event of August 11, 1944, held at The Hague's Lutheran Church, where the Act of Liberation from synodical coercion was read, was the culmination of a debate that had been raging for years. Its climax concerned the suspension and dismissals of a professor as well as consistories who could not agree with synod decisions and its unchurch-orderly coercion to obtain compliance.

The August 1944 Liberation bundle offers the essence of that episode in history, told by those who were eyewitnesses of it, and, in one instance, a student of it.

1) .... and we escaped, the recollections of eyewitness Rev. G. van Dooren, with some illustrations. Index of Names, Index of Principal Subjects.

2) My Path to Liberation, a memoir by Rev. Douwe Van Dijk who details his life's journey and his role as a delegate to the synod that had him banished from participating.

3) Schilder's Struggle for the Unity of the Church, a narrative told by well-known author Rudolf van Reest (a pseudonym for K.C. van Spronsen). The author was employed at the publishing company that issued the De Reformatie periodical of which Prof. K. Schilder was Editor-in-Chief. The Nazis banned it from publication in the Summer of 1940. It resumed publication in 1945. Index, notes.

4) Secession and Liberation For Today, a reflection by eyewitnesses J. Faber, D. DeJong and J. Mulder who stress that beyond the smoke and mirrors of the controversy the trustworthiness and integrity of God's word was the key issue at stake (page 41).

5) The Liberation: Causes and Consequences, The struggle in the Reformed Churches in The Netherlands in the 1940s, ed. by C. Van Dam with reflective chapters by J. Faber, J. De Jong and N.H. Gootjes, published at the 50th anniversary of The Liberation. A primer! Notes, Bibliography, Appendices with documents and correspondence.

As well, separately available on this online bookshop are the scholarly volumes The Klaas Schilder Reader and J. Douma's Common Grace in Kuyper, Schilder, and Calvin.

All are paperback volumes, 230, 370, 424, 49, 177 pages respectively