Seakle Greijdanus was a Reformed

Calvinism

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 theologian in the Netherlands

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, who first served in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands

Reformed Churches in the Netherlands

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 and later in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated).

Greijdanus studied theology

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 at the Free University

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 in Amsterdam

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, where he specialized in dogmatics.

As a minister, he served the Reformed churches of Rozenburg, Zuid-Beijerland and Paesens-Moddergat. In 1917 he became professor at the Kampen Theological University

Kampen Theological University

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Greijdanus wrote commentaries on Luke

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 and Romans

Epistle to the Romans

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A longtime opponent of Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper

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's ideas, Greijdanus joined Klaas Schilder

Klaas Schilder

Klaas Schilder was a theologian and professor in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and later in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands .Schilder was born into a state church family...

 in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) in the Liberation of 1944.

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