Other Pilgrims in Leiden: Hugh Goodyear and the English Reformed Church
When the citizens of seventeenth-century Leiden spoke of “the English church here,” they referred in most cases to the English Reformed Church, not to the historically-famous church of the Pilgrim Fathers. In the first decades of the seventeenth century, the Dutch city of Leiden included a sizable E...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1972]
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Church history
Year: 1972, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-60 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBD Benelux countries |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | When the citizens of seventeenth-century Leiden spoke of “the English church here,” they referred in most cases to the English Reformed Church, not to the historically-famous church of the Pilgrim Fathers. In the first decades of the seventeenth century, the Dutch city of Leiden included a sizable English and Scottish community, but one divided into two distinct religious factions, namely the Separatist Pilgrims and the non-separating Reformed Church. The enthusiasm to celebrate the deeds of the Mayflower Pilgrims may obscure Leiden's larger community of British strangers and sojourners; and not Leiden alone, for the English churches of Leiden were but two of more than two dozen such churches in early seventeenth-century Netherlands. John Robinson and his congregation arrived at Leiden in 1609, two years after the older English-Scottish community of the city had begun its own church life. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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