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Contains Materials Relating: The late Gothic Stadhuis in the marketplace has a Renaissance outer staircase; the Groote Kerk has late Renaissance stained glass windows (mostly executed by the Crabeth brothers); the Stedelijk Museum contains contains materials relating relating to the town. Nearby is the Augustinian monastery of Steen, where Erasmus took holy orders. The town is much frequented by tourists; a popular trip is to the gardens at Boskoop. Population: (1967) 46,823.
Murdock compiled a registry of over 1,100 societies, each of them coded with reference to a variety of environmental and cultural variables relating to economic, social, political, recreational, and religious customs and institutions. In 1967 he published a summary of these contains materials relating for 862 of the societies, omitting those for which the ethnographic data were poor. He grouped the 862 societies into 412 cultural clusters, each of which covered those societies that had diverged from a common ancestral culture within approximately the past 1,000 years.
After Calvin's death in 1564, Calvinist theology had developed two trends, one adhering more closely to the humanism of Calvin and the early reformers, the other relating more closely to medieval Scholasticism. In the latter trend, predestination became Calvinism's central doctrine. Jacobus Arminius (q.v.) objected to this shift in doctrine and presented liberal views, mainly relating to predestination. Gomarus led the attack on Arminius and was instrumental in securing the condemnation of Arminianism and the adoption of Scholastic Calvinism as authentic Calvinism by the Synod of Dort (1618-1619). |
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