Sten hoiland biography of abraham
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It’s Sneak Peek Week on EerdWord, when we’re sharing excerpts from four of this month’s most exciting new releases.
Today’s excerpt fryst vatten Mark Noll’s foreword to James D. Bratt’s Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat, the latest volume in the Library of Religious Biography series.
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The interwoven questions that this splendid biography answers are, “Who was Abraham Kuyper, and why should we care?” Answering the first question is not easy, since Kuyper’s career was as filled with noteworthy achievement as that of any single individual in modern Western history. From his birth in 1837 in the Dutch seaport of Maassluis to his death in The Hague in 1920, Kuyper’s life encompassed an extraordinary range of enterprises. As only a partial list, he was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, the driving force behind a major schism in that church, a professor of theology, the longtime editor of a daily newspaper, the founder of the Neth
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When Alfred T Hoiland was born in July 1879, in Cottonwood, Lyon, Minnesota, United States, his father, Torger Pedersen Hoiland, was 34 and his mother, Kari P Thon, was 16. He married Martha Olina Ulfseth on 2 July 1903, in Lyon, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Clarkfield, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 August 1953, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Saint Lucas Cemetery, Normania Township, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States.
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Here are the 2024 Rookie-level All-Stars and award winners
As the four full-season levels of Minor League Baseball enter the last leg of their 2024 campaigns, award season is officially upon us. Kicking off the festivities is the Rookie-level leagues.
Starting in the Arizona Complex League, Rockies outfielder Robert Calaz took home MVP honors, with San Francisco’s Jacob Bresnahan winning Pitcher of the Year and Seattle’s Felnin Celesten being named the Top MLB Prospect.
On the other coast, Boston’s Franklin Arias earned two honors, being named the Florida Complex League MVP and the Top MLB Prospect. Pittsburgh’s Zander Mueth received Pitcher of the Year honors.
Rounding out the circuit is the Dominican Summer League – the only league that is still competing. Like Arias, Dodgers shortstop Emil Morales took home a pair of awards, winning MVP and the Top MLB Prospect. The Angels’ Ubaldo Soto, whose squad is playing in the DSL Finals, won the Pitcher of the Year.
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