The Janssen Case – Chapter 1: The History of the Case (1)

The battle which rocked the Christian Reformed Church to its foundations during the years 1919-1922 swirled around Prof. Ralph Janssen, professor of Old Testament in Calvin Theological Seminary. Ralph Janssen was born to a family of farmers in the Zeeland-Holland area in 1874.  As a youth he attended the Christian Reformed Churches of Niekerk and Zeeland, the later congregation pastored at that time by Rev. Johannes Groen, who, it seems, had a great deal of influence on him. After completing...