Synod of Dort Part 2: Reformation in the Netherlands

In the 1540s, the Netherlands—at that time seventeen provinces of what we call the Low Countries—was ready for a sweeping Protestant Reformation. The first part of the Reformation to make progress in the Netherlands was Anabaptism. The Anabaptists didn’t believe in baptizing infants and they would often retreat into their own communities away from the rest of the people. The works and writing of John Calvin made its way into the Netherlands only a few years after he wrote them. Due to the...