Secession, Doleantie, and Union: 1834-1892, by Hendrik Bouma. Tr. Theodore Plantinga. Appendixes by Theodore Plantinga and Peter Y. De Jong / Saved By Grace: A Study of the Five Points of Calvinism, by Ronald Cammenga and Ronald Hanko

Secession, Doleantie, and Union: 1834-1892, by Hendrik Bouma. Tr. Theodore Plantinga. Appendixes by Theodore Plantinga and Peter Y. De Jong. Neerlandia, Alberta, Canada/Pella, Iowa, U.S.A.: Inheritance Publications, 1995. 302pp. $13.90 (paper). [Reviewed by the editor.] The availability in English of a reliable account of the union efforts of the Afscheiding ("secession") and Doleantie ("grieving") churches from 1886-1892 is noteworthy. This history of the contact and negotiations between the...