Chair of History on Neo-Calvinism

As of January 1, 2018, George Harinck will be professor of the history of neo-Calvinism. This chair was established to strengthen the profile of the Theological University. The institution is one of the leading institutes in the Dutch neo-Calvinist tradition. It aims to make this subject one of the cornerstones of its research field. Harinck is a historian, trained at Leiden University and has been affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 1985. There he developed into a specialist in the history of neo-Calvinism, both in the Netherlands and in its international relations.>

The chair falls under The Neo-Calvinism Research Institute (NRI) at the Theological University, which was founded at the same time as the chair was established and functions as one of the three research groups of the Theological University. The NRI is part of an international network for research into neo-Calvinism, both (art) historical and philosophical, theological, pedagogical, economic and legal.

An important part of the NRI and the associated chair is the website https://www.neocalvinism.org. This website contains the bibliographies of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), with links to their digitally accessible publications. In addition, this site contains the fully digitized archives of Kuyper and Bavinck. This site will be further expanded with sources from K. Schilder and others, and on representatives of the neo-Calvinist philosophy.

Harinck provides Dutch-language and English-language education on the history of neo-Calvinism, supervises a dozen PhD students and leads (inter)national projects in the field of neo-Calvinism, in collaboration with neo-Calvinism researchers at the Vrije Universiteit, Edinburgh University, Calvin University and Theological Seminary, Redeemer University (Ontario) and Fuller Theological Seminary.