Willem van 't Spijker

Willem van 't Spijker (born 21 September 1926) is a Dutch minister and theologian. He is specialized in church history and church law.

Life 
Willem van 't Spijker was born and grew up in Zwolle in a simple and family characterized by sincere piety. He married the daughter of Professor Hovius. In Apeldoorn he studied theology. At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam he graduated in 1970 with a dissertation titled "The offices of Martin Bucer". After being a minister at Drogeham and Utrecht, he became a professor at the Theological University of Apeldoorn of the Christian Reformed Churches. In 1997 he took leave as a professor, he was succeeded by Herman Selderhuis. In his academic education and in his publications, he specialized in the Reformation period. Internationally, he is a specialist in this period of church history.

He was promoted to knight in the order of the Dutch Lion; he received this distinctio, in particular because of his many publications in the field of ecclesiastical and scientific studies. From the University of Christian Higher Education in Potchefstroom, he received an honorary doctorate in theology. He received this degree, partly because of his extraordinary academic status in national and international context.

Biography 
 Calvin: A Brief Guide to His Life and Thought, Westminster John Knox Press, 2009
 Calvin: Biografie und Theologie (KIRCHE IN IHRER GESCHICHTE), Vandehoeck & Rupprecht, 2001, 
 The Ecclesiastical Offices in the Thought of Martin Bucer (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava), 1996,

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Category:1926 births
Category:Possibly living people
Category:Dutch Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Category:People from Zwolle
Category:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni