Afrikaner Calvinism

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Afrikaner Calvinism is the Reformed Protestant tradition of the Afrikaners. It rests on the confessional standards of the Dutch Reformed tradition, the Three Forms of Unity (the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort), and is carried mainly by three Afrikaans Reformed churches: the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK), the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHK) and the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA). The tradition began in the Dutch Reformed public church that the Dutch East India Company established at the Cape after 1652. The church was supervised by the classis of Amsterdam and served by ministers trained in the Netherlands, and over time it absorbed Lutheran settlers as well as French Huguenot refugees. Under British rule in the 19th century, Scottish ministers and the revivals associated with Andrew Murray gave the Cape church a strongly evangelical character. Settlers in the interior formed the NHK and, in 1859, the stricter Gereformeerde Kerk, whose...

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