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• Hoe de Nederlandse juffers met liefde omgingen: De wereld van de gevoelens in Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782) van Elisabeth Wolff en Agatha Deken

  9-26

  Jan Urbaniak

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  40

  Love played an important role in Wolff and Deken’s 18th-century bestseller, The History
  of Miss Sara Burgerhart. The attitude to the feelings allowed the reader to get to know the
  novel’s characters thoroughly. That how they talked about love and made love helped in
  the reconstruction of their character drawing. Sara – the title character of the novel – went
  through a development that also changed her conception of love: from the irresponsible
  teenager who enjoyed the company of various, sometimes rowdy boys, she gradually
  became an ideal wife and mother, with whom the sincere love prevailed. In this
  contribution, several models of love in the Sara Burgerhart epistolary novel were
  contrasted: the French-tinted, sentimentally colored libertine love game with the calm,
  reasoned feelings in the Dutch way. The result of such contradiction is easy to guess.

• Woord en beeld: Iemand had twee zonen (Lucas 15:11-32)

  159-195

  Margriet Gosker

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  80

  As an ecumenical theologian I studied all my life the words of the Holy Scriptures. I am also interested in images, strengthening the power of expression of words and the Word, and the other way around. In our present time the culture of images seems to be more and more important. One image can tell you more in a minute than many words can do. The Bible is interpreted by many interpreters and preachers in books, sermons and meditations. How can images interpret these Bible Stories? It is a challenge to show the correlation between the words of the Bible and its images. In this essay, I focus on the parable of the prodigal son. It shows three personalities: the father and his two sons. This raises the question: what about the mother? What is the interference between this story and the way individual artists managed to shape it in paint, pencil, stone, woodcut, and other materials? The youngest son is a spoiler. His life is adventure and pleasure and he has no limits. The eldest son is responsible and obedient, but he also has his dark side. Both of them could be a question to us. With whom could we identify ourselves? Some artists in their finest imagination did not stick to the story and made images of the mother or even of a prodigal daughter.

• “Carry each other’s burdens” Children’s aid missions in the Netherlands

  223-237

  Erzsébet Horváth

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  15

  In the 20th century the Dutch government and the Dutch people undertook the mission of helping socially deprived children on several occassions. The Hungarian and the Dutch Reformed churches have been tied by a close, brotherly bond for several centuries. The major organizer of the children’s holiday scheme was László Pap, Reformed minister, professor of theology in Budapest. 500 children on board of the first train traveled to the Netherlands on July 12th, 1948 and on January 19th, 1949 they arrived home. All the children are perfectly happy in their host families. The children are more than satisfied with their host families and vice versa. They had also found many friends, brothers and sisters, and had become family members.