CONTENTS
LECTURE I
The Revolution and the Réveil
Some National Characteristics—Influence of French Revolution—Theology during First Quarter of Century as represented by Van der Palm—National and Foreign Elements in the Réveil—Bilderdijk and Groen van Prinsterer—Influence of the Réveil on Dutch Theology—Its Outcome in the Confessional and Anti-revolutionary Party—Religious Education in the Schools and the Subscription-Formula
LECTURE II
The Groningen School and the Empirical School
Rise of the Groningen School—Sources in Pre-Reformation Mysticism of Northern Holland and the Platonic Studies of Van Heusde—Religion as Education—Christology—Doctrine regarding the Church—New Testament Criticism during Early Half of Century.
Rise of the Empirical School—Opzoomer, Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht—Dutch Views on Philosophy—Opzoomer’s Theological Writings—Causality and Teleology—Dr Hastie on Rembrandt’s “Lesson in Anatomy”
LECTURE III
The Leiden School and the Ethical School
Scholten on the Fundamental Principles of the Doctrine of the Reformed Church—An Attempt towards a Synthesis of Science and Religion on the Ground of the Historical and National Form of the Latter—1. Formal and 2. Material Principles of Reformed Theology—1. Manifestation and
