Status Updates From Dutch Calvinism in Modern A...

Against liberalism's vaunted pragmatism, the Dutch recalled Kuyper's presuppositional psychology: all action grew out of conviction, and so the Modernist bromide "Deeds, not creeds" was at once both foolish and duplicitous, being itself an article of faith. In fact, all of Modernism's labors evinced a creed, unwritten but fully as real as that of orthodoxy. 129

Bratt has an impressive pulse on this area of history. Excellent notes and sources, woah

Learned a lot in the first 100 pages about divisions in the Dutch Reformed community over American acculturation and "the relationship of God's people to the world." Fascinating and poignant. Now looking forward to reading about "the consolidated community, 1928-1948."