Guillaume Groen Van Prinsterer

Status
Not open for further replies.
V

VirginiaHuguenot

Puritanboard Librarian
Today is the anniversary of the death of Guillaume Groen Van Prinsterer, a leading Dutch Christian statesman, political theorist and historian (August 21, 1801 -- May 19, 1876). He is famous for his anti-revolutionary work Lectures on Unbelief and Revolution as well as other political and historical treatises.

More on his life and works here.
 
groen.gif
 
Groen's critique of the French Revolution is solidly in the tradition of Burke. Groen is one of the greats that is often overlooked.
 
Why is Unbelief and Revolution such a great work ? I just bought it, like to hear your vieuws . Are there more books from Groen van Prinsterer that you read ?
 
Originally posted by Mayflower
Why is Unbelief and Revolution such a great work ? I just bought it, like to hear your vieuws . Are there more books from Groen van Prinsterer that you read ?
Click to expand...

Regretfully that is all except for this...That is the only work in English save a collection of shorter writings and U&R. I have his bibliography and 1 copy of his correspondance given to me by Harry Van Dyke of Redeemer College in Canada (he is the person that did the translation work in the English edition of U&R)

As far as why do I like the above book? Too much to get into right now...I might post some quotes later when time frees up.

BTW, I regret that I didn't get to come to the Netherlands last week like I had planned. It fell through. I heard that it was a great conference though.

Oh yeah, if you can find a copy of the correspondance between Kuyper and Van Prinsterer cheap, let me know.
 
Originally posted by crhoades
Originally posted by Mayflower
Why is Unbelief and Revolution such a great work ? I just bought it, like to hear your vieuws . Are there more books from Groen van Prinsterer that you read ?
Click to expand...

Regretfully that is all except for this...That is the only work in English save a collection of shorter writings and U&R. I have his bibliography and 1 copy of his correspondance given to me by Harry Van Dyke of Redeemer College in Canada (he is the person that did the translation work in the English edition of U&R)

As far as why do I like the above book? Too much to get into right now...I might post some quotes later when time frees up.

BTW, I regret that I didn't get to come to the Netherlands last week like I had planned. It fell through. I heard that it was a great conference though.

Oh yeah, if you can find a copy of the correspondance between Kuyper and Van Prinsterer cheap, let me know.
Click to expand...

Dear Chris,

I send some time ago a mail to your personal mailadress concerning your planning of coming to the Netherlands, but you never responded ?

Yesterday i orderd the correspondance between Kuyper and Van Prinsterer. But they are not cheap, i payed like 35 eur.

It's amazing to see how much correspondance Groen van prinsterer hath. There is a hugh 6 volume set with only correspondance of Groen van prinsterer.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top