Servants of the Kingdom
Professionalization among Ministers of the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands Reformed Church
Biographical note
David J. Bos, Ph.D. (1999) in Social Science, University of Amsterdam, is Lecturer in the History of Christianity at Utrecht University, and Lectuer in Sociology at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam).
Readership
Theologians, historians and sociologists as well as educated laymen interested in nineteenth-century Dutch religion, society and culture -- notably Dutch literature.
Table of contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
Historical Passages
Terminology
Sources
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
The Social Position of Pastors
Disagreements – Mixed Feelings – A Family Affair – Dimensions of Inequality –Differences in Development
Professions, Professionalism, and Professionalization
Professional Ties – Noble Motives – A New Complex – Strategic Action – Discussion
The Design of This Study
CHAPTER I: “FOR THE PULPIT AND CONGREGATION” – THE WORK OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MINISTERS
Preaching
Worship
Rites of Passage
Birth – Marriage – Burial
“Religious Education”
The Lord’s Supper
Pastoral Care
Visitation of the Sick – Assisting the Condemned
A Sense of Social Calling
Poor Relief – Abstinence and Temperance – Sunday Schools
Conclusion
CHAPTER II: “OFFICIALS WITH THE TITLE OF PROPHET” – THE REFORMED CHURCH IN KING WILLIAM’S REALM
A Governing Elite
A Church Association
“Improvement of the Status of Preachers”
“A Circle of Reverend Men”
“Folly, Vanity, Damnation!”: Discontent with the Enlightenment
“Secessionism”
Conclusion
CHAPTER III: “THE LIGHT OF SCHOLARSHIP” – THEOLOGIANS, ACADEMIA, AND THE CHURCH
Digression: Higher Education for Dissenting Ministers
Theological Education: The Struggle for Control
“Uplifting” the Congregation: the Groningen School
The Flock Leading its Shepherds: Theologians versus the Laity
A Protestant nation?
“Personal Relations between Professors and the Reformed Church”
Professors at the Synod
Conclusion
CHAPTER IV: “THE YOUNG CLERIC” – THE LIFE OF A THEOLOGY STUDENT
Recruitment
“Bowing, Groveling, Fawning”: The Life of a Proponent
Theology on the Margins
A College of Their Own
A Map of Academy-Land
Theology Students Go to War
Theology Students and “the Corps”
Groningen – Leiden – Utrecht – Amsterdam
Aspects of Integration
The Senate – The Club – Good Morals – Feet on the Ground – Yearbook Committee
Frat Boys and Oinks
Conclusion
CHAPTER V: “THAT FELLOW WITH THE WHITE BOWTIE” – THEOLOGIANS IN DUTCH LITERARY LIFE
Pastor-professors
Cultural Capital
Formal Eloquence as Habitus
Received Standard Dutch
Theology Students as Romantics
“A Humoristic Revolution”
“How Do We Sound to Them?”: Theology and Practice
Pastor-poets
Conclusion
CHAPTER VI: “THE WORST OF THE FIVE” -- THE RISE OF THE YOUNG DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY
“A Divine Beginning”
Background
The Rise of the Young Doctor
Theological Societies
University Essay Competitions
In the Interest of Theology
A Scholar in the Manse
Eager Learners
Modern Theology: “Faith plus Chemistry”
Building on Scholarship
Academic Manners
Experts and Laypeople
Conclusion
CHAPTER VII: INEQUALITY AND FRATERNITY – THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE MINISTRY
Ministers-in-waiting
Seniority
Retirement
Pensions – Early Retirement
Career Alternatives
Secondary Education – Journalism – Outside the Church
Climbing the Career Ladder
City and Country
The Road to the City
A Hierarchy of Congregations
Pastors and Professors
Very Reverend Gentlemen
Publish or Perish
Conclusion
CHAPTER VIII: SERVANTS OF THE CONGREGATION? – REFORMED PASTORS IN RELATION TO THEIR FLOCKS
Historical Background
Abolition of Feudal Rights
“Called by God’s congregation, and hence by God himself”
Ethical Theology: “The Faith of the Congregation”
“The Dominion of the Bourgeoisie”: Church Elections
“The Right of the Congregations versus the Power of the Church”: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party
The Church and the Masses: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party (II)
God and Mammon
Theology Times Two
The End of the Great Church: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party (III)
Conclusion
CONCLUSIONS
GLOSSARY
Bilingual Glossary of Proper Names
List of Abbreviations
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
SOURCES AND LITERATURE
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
Historical Passages
Terminology
Sources
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
The Social Position of Pastors
Disagreements – Mixed Feelings – A Family Affair – Dimensions of Inequality –Differences in Development
Professions, Professionalism, and Professionalization
Professional Ties – Noble Motives – A New Complex – Strategic Action – Discussion
The Design of This Study
CHAPTER I: “FOR THE PULPIT AND CONGREGATION” – THE WORK OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MINISTERS
Preaching
Worship
Rites of Passage
Birth – Marriage – Burial
“Religious Education”
The Lord’s Supper
Pastoral Care
Visitation of the Sick – Assisting the Condemned
A Sense of Social Calling
Poor Relief – Abstinence and Temperance – Sunday Schools
Conclusion
CHAPTER II: “OFFICIALS WITH THE TITLE OF PROPHET” – THE REFORMED CHURCH IN KING WILLIAM’S REALM
A Governing Elite
A Church Association
“Improvement of the Status of Preachers”
“A Circle of Reverend Men”
“Folly, Vanity, Damnation!”: Discontent with the Enlightenment
“Secessionism”
Conclusion
CHAPTER III: “THE LIGHT OF SCHOLARSHIP” – THEOLOGIANS, ACADEMIA, AND THE CHURCH
Digression: Higher Education for Dissenting Ministers
Theological Education: The Struggle for Control
“Uplifting” the Congregation: the Groningen School
The Flock Leading its Shepherds: Theologians versus the Laity
A Protestant nation?
“Personal Relations between Professors and the Reformed Church”
Professors at the Synod
Conclusion
CHAPTER IV: “THE YOUNG CLERIC” – THE LIFE OF A THEOLOGY STUDENT
Recruitment
“Bowing, Groveling, Fawning”: The Life of a Proponent
Theology on the Margins
A College of Their Own
A Map of Academy-Land
Theology Students Go to War
Theology Students and “the Corps”
Groningen – Leiden – Utrecht – Amsterdam
Aspects of Integration
The Senate – The Club – Good Morals – Feet on the Ground – Yearbook Committee
Frat Boys and Oinks
Conclusion
CHAPTER V: “THAT FELLOW WITH THE WHITE BOWTIE” – THEOLOGIANS IN DUTCH LITERARY LIFE
Pastor-professors
Cultural Capital
Formal Eloquence as Habitus
Received Standard Dutch
Theology Students as Romantics
“A Humoristic Revolution”
“How Do We Sound to Them?”: Theology and Practice
Pastor-poets
Conclusion
CHAPTER VI: “THE WORST OF THE FIVE” -- THE RISE OF THE YOUNG DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY
“A Divine Beginning”
Background
The Rise of the Young Doctor
Theological Societies
University Essay Competitions
In the Interest of Theology
A Scholar in the Manse
Eager Learners
Modern Theology: “Faith plus Chemistry”
Building on Scholarship
Academic Manners
Experts and Laypeople
Conclusion
CHAPTER VII: INEQUALITY AND FRATERNITY – THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE MINISTRY
Ministers-in-waiting
Seniority
Retirement
Pensions – Early Retirement
Career Alternatives
Secondary Education – Journalism – Outside the Church
Climbing the Career Ladder
City and Country
The Road to the City
A Hierarchy of Congregations
Pastors and Professors
Very Reverend Gentlemen
Publish or Perish
Conclusion
CHAPTER VIII: SERVANTS OF THE CONGREGATION? – REFORMED PASTORS IN RELATION TO THEIR FLOCKS
Historical Background
Abolition of Feudal Rights
“Called by God’s congregation, and hence by God himself”
Ethical Theology: “The Faith of the Congregation”
“The Dominion of the Bourgeoisie”: Church Elections
“The Right of the Congregations versus the Power of the Church”: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party
The Church and the Masses: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party (II)
God and Mammon
Theology Times Two
The End of the Great Church: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party (III)
Conclusion
CONCLUSIONS
GLOSSARY
Bilingual Glossary of Proper Names
List of Abbreviations
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
SOURCES AND LITERATURE
INDEX
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