‘Verdreeven om de getuygenisse der waarheid’. Over bevindelijke vroomheid in de Kaapkolonie

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  • G Schutte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17570/ngtt.2010.v51n1.a12

Abstract

On May 11, 1751 Governor Rijk Tulbagh ordered the Reverend Herman Hayko van der Veen (a former minister in East Fri­sia, no­w re­crui­ted by the VOC for the church in the East) to conti­nue his journey to Batavia immediately. An offi­cer of the gar­ri­son es­cor­ted him to Table Bay. And some forty Cape­to­nians. At the beach he kneeled for a prayer. I am being cha­sed from the Cape be­cause I bear wit­ness God’s truth! Since his arri­val at the Cape, on the 21th of Janu­ary, Van der Veen ­had crea­ted many con­flicts, with the local cler­gy, the con­sis­tory, and the go­vern­ment. But he had also edifyed sco­res of god­fea­ring peop­le in a con­venticle: Van der Veen was a pie­tist, prea­ching conversion and revival. His story and some other more give substance to a forgotten element of 18th century Cape reli­gi­ous life: Cal­vi­nist expe­rien­tal pie­tism.

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Published

2010-06-30

How to Cite

Schutte, G. (2010). ‘Verdreeven om de getuygenisse der waarheid’. Over bevindelijke vroomheid in de Kaapkolonie. NGTT | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 51(1&2). https://doi.org/10.17570/ngtt.2010.v51n1.a12

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 1&2 (2010)

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Articles | Artikels

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