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...Rotterdam's good grey Nieuwe Courant. "Can a German put flowers at our memorials for heroes he fought against?" Amsterdam's Het Parool objected that the future queen's husband "cannot be a man whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls in The Hague with...
...proposed 5,000-word "Confession of 1967" does not have to deal with predestination, the historic preoccupation of Presbyterians; an amendment to the Westminster Confession way back in 1903 effectively modified the Calvinist doctrine that some men are predestined for salvation while others are damned to hell. It challenges the "inerrancy" of the literal Bible by asserting that while Scripture is the authoritative witness to God's word, it is to be reinterpreted in each age in the light of increasing knowledge. For the first time in Presbyterian church history, the new confession gives the church a specific social...
...that now stand in the way of Lutheran intercommunion and pulpit fellowship. > Even closer to union are the 928,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) and the Reformed Church in America (232,000). A joint study committee has found no major obstacle to merger of these two Calvinist bodies, which already share a common church school curriculum and operate joint missions abroad. Observers believe that a formal announcement of merger may be made in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of John Calvin's death, May 27. > At Washington's Wesley Theological Seminary, representatives...
First Hint. The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch...
Irene's fate was already sealed. By arriving in triumph with Carlos, instead of meekly returning alone to listen to official advice, the highhanded princess angered many important politicians-Catholic and Calvinist alike-who might have helped her. For the Dutch constitution specifies that an heir to the throne must either win approval for his marriage from the government and at least two-thirds of Parliament or renounce all claim to succession. If he marries in violation of the constitution, he is officially regarded "as dead...