Peter Datheen: Father of Reformed Liturgy (2) The Reformation in the Netherlands

Introduction While our main interest in these articles is that great preacher and Reformed liturgist, Peter Datheen, it is crucial, if we are to understand his life, to have before our minds a brief sketch of the history of the Reformation in the Lowlands, in which country Datheen lived and worked. We called attention to the fact that the Reformed Church in the Netherlands was born out of the womb of persecution, some of the most terrible persecution the church has ever experienced in the...