PHL 228: Reformational Philosophy

This is a translation of a work, Mr. G. Groen van Prinsterer, published by Oosterbaan & Le Cointre, Goes, the Netherlands, 1976.
Published simultaneously in U.S.A. by Inheritance Publications, Pella, Iowa.

The studies presented in this volume focus mainly on Groen's work
in the fields of education and history. At the outset of his campaign for "positive Christian education," "Groen regarded The Netherlands as a Protestant Christian nation: "Christelijk -nationaal" was a fact of history, a national patrimony, a sacred trust and mandate, certainly the heart of the matter politically for him Having to adopt another assumption later, namely that the state had become secular and was no longer Christian— as he did once the Primary Schools Act of 1857 was passed, precipitating his resignation from Parliament --must have seemed to him the political equivalent of having to accept the formal apostacy of one's church." Intro.