1834: Hendrik De Cock’s Return to the True Church, by Marvin Kamps. Reviewed by: David J. Engelsma
This review article examines Marvin Kamps' biography of Hendrik De Cock, the 19th-century Dutch Reformed preacher who courageously separated from the apostate state church in 1834 and returned to the true church as marked by Article 29 of the Belgic Confession. The resource presents De Cock's act of ecclesiastical reformation as a model of faithful witness, highlighting his suffering and persecution as the cost of maintaining doctrinal purity and proper church marks in the face of institutional corruption.
1834: Hendrik De Cock's Return to the True Church, by Marvin Kamps. Jenison, MI: RFPA, 2014. Pp. xx + 490. $43.95 hard. [Reviewed by David J. Engelsma.] This is a book about a spiritual hero. One day, God will honor him before all humans, especially before his contemptible enemies -- ostensibly colleagues in a Reformed church -- who persecuted him, and before the scarcely less contemptible "friends," who nevertheless refused to join him in his separation from the false church, which would have...
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