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is just another religion. Rookmaaker ventured to apply this basic viewpoint to culture. With his expert ear of black music, multi-cultural roots and after a profound change of direction, he devoted his PhD to the ideas of Paul
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Christian, but was severely tested as his bride-to-be was nowhere to be found. His study of the Old Testament, dedicated to her during the camp years, never reached her. It has been established that Sophia Henriëtte Spetter was
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series of black music, wrote a book on this subject and developed a
Christian approach to art in a book aiming at a wide audience. On the political level he wrote about art and culture for the magazine of the Reformed
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