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Book Reviews / CHRC . () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, DOI: 10.1163/187124110X545290 Christa Boerke (Red.), Paul Gerhardt (–). Lezingen, gehouden tij- dens het Gerhardtsymposium in de Theologische Universiteit op maart ter gelegenheid van zijn ste geboortedag [Apeldoornse studies ]. Theologi- sche Universiteit Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn , pp. ISBN . .. In it was years ago that Paul Gerhardt, one of the most important poets of church music was born. Unlike Germany, that commemorated this fact with large symposia and a diversity of publications, the Netherlands barely paid attention to it. The symposium held on the th of March at the Christian Reformed University of Theology in Apeldoorn was an exception. Five theologians, who all studied at this University, held lectures about Ger- hardt’s life, work, and reception of his hymns during this symposium. These lectures were published in in a seventy-paged booklet as part of the series “Apeldoornse Studies.” Christa Boerke, church historian, gives a compact and good biography of Gerhardt. She also describes his theology on the base of Gerhardt’s surviving hymns. She concludes: “his aim was to unite the believer with the Person whom
Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2010
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