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Jan van der Graaf
Dutch church administrator (1937–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jan van der Graaf (12 January 1937 – 14 October 2022) was a Dutch church administrator and engineer.[1] He was General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1973 and 2000.[2] Van der Graaf also wrote several books,[3] was chief editor of the Reformed Association's magazine De Waarheidsvriend and associated with the Evangelische Omroep.[4]
For the most part of his youth he was a member of the Reformed Congregations. Although Van der Graaf didn't study theology - instead, he studied chemical technology at Delft University of Technology[5] and did some teaching afterwards - he acted like a theologian. He was an iconic personality in representing the Reformed Association (Gereformeerde Bond).[6]
Van der Graaf was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1994.[7]
Van der Graaf died in Huizen on 14 October 2022, at the age of 85.[2]
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Relatives
Former Secretary General of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Bas Plaisier (born 1946) is his brother-in-law.[8]
Bibliography
Books of Jan van der Graaf:
- Delen of helen? : kroniek van hervormd kerkelijk leven in en met de Gereformeerde Bond, 1951-1981 (2002) ISBN 9043504564
- De Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk : belijdend onderweg : 1951-1981-2001 (2003) ISBN 9043506710
- Ze hadden wat te zeggen : vijfentwintig miniaturen over reisgenoten (2004) ISBN 9058294390
- Passie voor het Evangelie : leven en werk van ds. G. Boer (2005) ISBN 9058290948
- Volkskerk in de marge : een actuele bezinning (2012), ISBN 9789088970528
- Deelgenoot van een kantelende tijd : een persoonlijke terugblik (2014), ISBN 9789462780699
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References
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