The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 18

NOTES TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

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creature, should have

come

Reformed

in hostile contact with the

theology, which most zealously guards these boundary-lines. fact,

instead of uniting the two existing parties on one

In

common

movement added a third, which in the subsemuch more bitter, arbitrary, and tyrannical than

ground, the Ethical

quent conflict was

the moderns, and which has already abandoned the in the

manner

of

Holy Scriptures

Wellhausen and Kuenen.

In 1872 Dr. Chantepie de la Saussaye

was appointed professor

of theology in the University of Groningen, succeeding Hofstede

He

de Groot.

filled this position

asleep February

13,

His most excellent disciple ning,

till

but thirteen months.

He

fell

1874. is

the highly gifted Dr.

J.

H. Gun-

1899 professor of theology at the University of Leyden.

The name

of Dr. Kohlbrugge is frequently found in the followBorn a Lutheran, a graduate of the seminary of Amsterdam, a candidate for the Lutheran ministry, Dr. Kohlbrugge became acquainted with the Reformed theology through the study Known and feared as an ardent admirer of its earlier exponents.

ing pages.

first of the Lutheran then of the State Church refused him admission to the ministry. He left Holland for Germany, where for the same reason he

of the doctrine of predestination, the authorities

was debarred from the pulpits of the German Reformed churches. At last he was called to the pulpit of a Free Reformed church at Elberfeld, established by himself. He was a profound theologian, a prolific writer, and one zealous His numerous writings, half Lutherfor the honor of his Master. an, half Reformed, were spread over Holland, the Rhenish provinces, the cantons of Switzerland, and even among some Reformed churches of Bohemia.

Some

of his disciples fell into Antinomianism,

pits in the State

Kohlbruggians.

Church

at the present time.

Professor Bohl, of Vienna,

sentative of the Old Kohlbruggians.

and occupy pulare called Neo-

They

the learned repre-

is

Both the old and the new

school are strongly opposed to Calvinism.

The

translation of

"

The Work

of the

taken by appointment of the author, to

Holy

Spirit "

whom the

was under-

proof-sheets of al-

Being most all the first volume were submitted for correction. ' " the transsatisfied with being fully work, and overwhelmed with the delay not to author decided it, the far he had seen lation so as work for the reading of the remaining volumes, but to leave that to

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