Synod of Dordt Part 1: The Netherlands in the 1500’s

This year, the Protestant Reformed Churches will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Synod of Dort. This was a synod in the Netherlands from 1618 to 1619 that defended the five points of Calvinism and wrote the Canons of Dort. At the time that the Canons of Dort were written, the Netherlands was going through both a reformation and revolution. In studying the history around it, we can see how God guided history to preserve the truths of Scripture in not one but two of the Three Forms of...