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This category gives information on the Reformed Church in the Netherlands. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended the Eighty Years' War for the independence of the Netherlands. The Reformed Church, which was identified with Dutch nationalism, constituted the majority church within a nation that had remarkable tolerance for religious minorities. Closer state control of the church followed the Napoleonic era. This and an enervated theology prompted two secessions from the Dutch Reformed Church, the first in the 1830s and the second in the 1880s. These secession churches united as the Gereformeerde Kerken in The Netherlands, which exist alongside the traditional Hervormde Kerk. Abraham Kuyper, the scholarly neo-Calvinist leader of the second of these secessions, served as prime minister of The Netherlands with a conservative coalition in Parliament from 1901 to 1905. The two main bodies of Reformed Protestantism in The Netherlands cooperate on many levels.

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