History
In 1854, a Theological School ("Theologische School") was founded by the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands, a church resulting from a schism in 1834, to provide for education for its ministers. The name was changed to Theological College ("Theologische Hogeschool") in 1939.
In 1892, the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands merged with another group split from the mainstream Dutch Reformed Church to form the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which founded a new Calvinist university in Amsterdam: the Free University. This university also has a theological faculty, but the College at Kampen remained a separate institution.
In 1944, another schism within the Reformed Church in the Netherlands occurred, called the Liberation ("Vrijmaking"), which resulted in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated). This new church also had a need for its own ministerial education institute, and so a new Theological College of the Reformed Church (Liberated) was founded from parts of the Theological College. In 1986, both Colleges became Universities when a change in the Dutch university/polytechnic system was carried out.
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