Acknowledgements

Translator's Preface to the English Edition

Historical Passages

Terminology

Sources

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Social Position of Pastors

Professions, Professionalism, and Professionalization

The Design of this Study

CHAPTER I. "For the Pulpit and Congregation" – The Work of Nineteenth-Century Ministers

Preaching

Worship

Rites of Passage

"Religious Education"

The Lord's Supper

Pastoral Care

A Social Calling

Conclusion

CHAPTER II. "Officials with the Title of Prophet" – The Reformed Church in King William's Realm

A Governing Elite

A Church Association

"Improvement of the Status of Ministers"

"A Circle of Reverend Men"

"Folly, Vanity, Damnation!": Discontent with the Enlightenment

"Secessionism"

Conclusion

CHAPTER III. The Light of Scholarship – Theologians, Academia, and the Church

Digression: Higher Education for Dissenting Ministers

Theological Education: The Struggle for Control

"Uplifting" the Congregation: the Groningen School

"The Flock Leading its Shepherds": Theologians versus the Laity

A Protestant Nation?

"Personal Relations between Professors and the Reformed Church"

Professors at the Synod

Conclusion

CHAPTER IV. "The Young Cleric" – The Life of a Theology Student

Recruitment

"Bowing, Groveling, Fawning": The Life of a Proponent

Theology on the Margins

A College of Their Own

A Map of Academy-Land

Theology Students Go to War

Theology Students and "the Corps"

Aspects of Integration

Frat Boys and Oinks

Conclusion

CHAPTER V. "That Fellow with the White Bowtie" – Theologians in Dutch Literary Life

Pastor-Professors

Cultural Capital

Formal Eloquence as Habitus

Received Standard Dutch

Theology Students as Romantics

"A Humoristic Revolution"

"How Do We Sound to Them?": Theology and Practice

Pastor-Poets

Conclusion

CHAPTER VI. "The Worst of the Five" – The Rise of the Young Doctor of Theology

"A Divine Beginning"

Background

The Rise of the Young Doctor

Theological Societies

University Essay Competitions

In the Interest of Theology

A Scholar in the Manse

Eager Learners

Modern Theology: "Faith plus Chemistry"

Building on Scholarship

Academic Manners

Experts and Laypeople

Conclusion

CHAPTER VII. Inequality and Fraternity – The Social Structure of the Ministry

Ministers-in-waiting

Seniority

Retirement

Career Alternatives

Climbing the Career Ladder

City and Country

The Road to the City

A Hierarchy of Congregations

Pastors and Professors

Very Reverend Gentlemen

Publish or Perish

Conclusion

CHAPTER VIII. Servants of the Congregation? – Reformed Pastors in Relation to their Flocks

Historical Background

"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's"

"Called by God's congregation, and hence by God himself"

Ethical Theology: "The Faith of the Congregation"

"The Dominion of the Bourgeoisie": Church Elections

"The Right of the Congregations versus the Power of the Church": Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party

The Church and the Masses: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party (II)

God and Mammon

Theology Times Two

The End of the Great Church: Abraham Kuyper and the Neo-Calvinist Party (III)

Conclusion

Conclusions

Glossary

Bilingual Glossary of Proper Names

List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Tables

Sources and literature

Index