Kerkbouw en kerkinrichting bij de remonstranten

Samenvatting

In this contribution "Remonstrant churchbuilding and church-interior" the way is described in which a Dutch dissident churchcommunity gave expression to its principles by means of churchbuilding and interior. The Remonstrant Brotherhood emanated from a movement, which argued for tolerance and religious freedom in the Calvinistic church in the Netherlands. It owes its name to the Remonstrance of 1610 on this subject. In 1619 it came into being after the Synod of Dordrecht had rejected the ideas of the Remonstrance. Churchbuilding was connived at the Remonstrants in the Netherlands. People met secretly in clandestine churches. The fitting-up of these churches displayed a simplified form of the Calvinistic church-interior. In their worship the Remonstrants wanted to comply with the Calvinistic manner. This continued till the last fourth part of the nineteenth century. Then modernism came with its rejection of traditional church forms. In most cases the Calvinistic church-interior made way for the sober conciseness of the auditory. There came a turn in this way of thinking about 1930. A renewed liturgical notion broke through. In churchbuilding and church-interior intimity, sphere en devotion were accentuated. After the second world-war the Remonstrants built churches in different styles. In this a more general Christian symbolism plays a part, be it with consciously chosen Remonstrant accents. Simplicity and truth
are characteristic of the Remonstrant churchbuilding and church-interior through the ages.