Rhine River Cruise

July 9 – 23, 2018 Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, with president Dr. Joel R. Beeke, invites you to travel through Europe by deluxe motorcoach and luxurious river cruise ship.

We’ll be stopping for day visits at various old cities, many of which house famous sites of pre- Reformation, Reformation, and post-Reformation history. Our tour also features Dordrecht, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the famous Synod of Dordrecht (Dort).

Dr. Beeke, together with Reformation lecturers Dr. Ian Hamilton and David Woollin, will provide fascinating historical and theological addresses and insights along the way, together with highly qualified local guides. Don’t miss this very special occasion!

Dr. Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, , editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Amsterdam Truth, and editorial director of Reformation Amersfoort Heritage Books. He has written and co- Kralingseveer Woudenberg authored ninety books, edited one hundred books, and contributed 2,500 articles to Dordrecht Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His PhD is in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Cologne He is frequently called upon to lecture at seminaries and to speak

Rhine at Reformed conferences around the world. He and his wife Mary Marburg have been blessed with three children and two grandchildren. Herborn Dr. Joel R. Beeke | 616-432-3403 | [email protected] Koblenz Cochem Rüdesheim Dr. Ian Hamilton was the minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church, England, until July 2016. For twenty Mainz years prior, he was the minister of Loudoun Worms Mannheim Church of Scotland, Newmilns, Ayrshire. Heidelberg Currently, he teaches at Edinburgh Theological Seminary and at Greenville Presbyterian Bretten Theological Seminary. He is married to Joan,

and together they have four children and four Rhine Strasbourg Danube granddaughters. Dr. Hamilton has written a number of books, including, The Erosion of Calvinist Orthodoxy, The Letters of John, and The Faith Shaped Life.

Konstanz David Woollin is from Yorkshire in northern England and is Lake Constance a graduate of Puritan Reformed Theological Basel Zürich Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been married to Sarah for eighteen years, and together they have three children: Benjamin, Lake Grindelwald Lauterbrunnen Samuel, and Amy. Alongside being the Sales Montreux and Marketing Director for Reformation Geneva Heritage Books, he is also an assistant to Zermatt Dr. Joel R. Beeke. He is a regular preacher and teacher in both the United States and United Kingdom. Matterhorn

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July, 2018 11, Wednesday 12, Thursday yOUR cruise Geneva Montreux, Zermatt/Klein tour includes: 09, Monday After a good night’s sleep, we’re Matterhorn • Round-trip airfare from Departure from the U.S. ready to do some exploring. A scenic drive along Lake Chicago, Grand Rapids, or The day of departure has arrived! Our guided tour of Geneva Geneva takes us to the resort Toronto including all taxes We’ll check for our flights to includes the Cathédrale St.- town of Montreux. With its and fees (other departure Switzerland. (D-in flight) Pierre, where Calvin preached exceptionally mild climate cities upon request) on Sundays and weekdays; and Mediterranean plant life, • Land transportation by 10, Tuesday the International Museum of Montreux is known as the Vaud deluxe, air-conditioned Arrive Geneva the Reformation, which traces Riviera. We’ll have a chance to motorcoach and river the history of the Reformation walk along the promenade and Welcome to Switzerland! We’ll cruise ship movement initiated by John make a photo stop at the famous touch down in Geneva by late Calvin; and a walk past City Hall 12th-century Chillon Castle. Then • Pre-cruise and post-cruise morning, meet our European to the Reformation Monument. we’ll travel to Zermatt, home of accommodations for six tour managers, and transfer to nights in centrally located This memorial, erected in 1917, the Matterhorn—Switzerland’s the city center. An orientation first-class hotels contains statues of the four national symbol and the most tour will take us past Geneva’s great reformers associated with photographed mountain in the • Comfortable and most important sites, and we’ll Geneva—Calvin, Farel, Beza, and world. We’ll take a cable car up elegant stateroom have some time to freshen up Knox. If it can be arranged, we’ll the Klein (small) Matterhorn, and accommodations for before a welcome dinner at the seven nights on the also visit l’Auditoire, where John enjoy dinner and an overnight hotel. (B-in flight, D) MS Amadeus Silver II Knox preached to the English stay in Zermatt. During the exiles on Sunday and Calvin • Daily breakfast, evening, David Woollin will 5 lunches, and 13 lectured on the Holy Scriptures provide a lecture on Peter Waldo dinners including regional on weekdays. The Church of and the . (B, D) specialties Scotland now worships here. Afterward, we’ll have time to • Experienced tour explore the city independently. managers and local Our day concludes with dinner guides throughout and a cruise on the beautiful Lac • Services of an Léman (Lake Geneva), an arc- experienced cruise shaped lake that has long been director during the cruise a favorite vacation destination. • All shore excursions as (B, D) noted in the itinerary • State-of-the-art audio headsets for all shore  Reformation Wall, Geneva, excursions Switzerland • Gratuities for all tour Cover Image: MS Amadeus Silver II on personnel the Rhine River near Cologne, Germany

July 2018 | Rhine River Reformation Cruise 13, Friday  Lauterbrunnen/ Jungfraujoch, Grindelwald, Zurich Another day of incomparable Swiss scenery awaits us as we head to Lauterbrunnen, where we’ll board a train to reach the top of the Jungfraujoch, Europe’s highest mountain resort. The panorama at 11,401 feet defies description! We’ll have time to take pictures and walk around before heading to the glacier village of Grindelwald, a picturesque scene with fields of fruit trees and charming buildings set against a rocky barrier. We’ll then travel to Zurich, considered Switzerland’s most important financial, industrial, and commercial center. Our day concludes at the hotel, where we’ll check in and have dinner. David Woollin will provide a lecture on John Huss and the Hussites this evening. (B, D)

14, Saturday Zürich, Konstanz, Basel Our day begins with a guided 15, Sunday  tour of Zürich including the Basel Grossmünster, from whose We’ll spend most of our day in pulpit Ulrich Zwingli established Basel, with a morning worship the Reformation in the German- service led by Dr. Beeke. In speaking part of Switzerland. the late afternoon, we’ll board We’ll also visit the Fraumünster, the MS Amadeus Silver II to which is famous for its stained- get acquainted with the ship glass windows by Marc Chagall, and settle into our cabins. and St. Peter’s Church. After time After an elegant dinner on for lunch we’ll take an excursion board, Dr. Hamilton will lead into Germany to Konstanz, an evening worship service on where Czech priest, philosopher, the Five Solas of the Protestant and early reformer Jan Huss Reformation. (B, L, D) was burned at the stake. We plan to visit the Hus Museum. Then we’ll end the day in the Swiss city of Basel, a wealthy and influential city at the time of the Reformation. Theologian and  reformer Johann Oecolampadius was from Basel, and ’s Institutes of the Christian Religion were first published here. (B, D)  Lauterbrunnen Valley with Swiss Alps  Cathedral in Strasbourg, France  Train in Lauterbrunnen Valley  Monument, Worms  Basel, Switzerland  Heidelberg, Germany

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17, Tuesday Speyer, Bretten, Heidelberg, Worms, Mannheim We’ll dock in Speyer this morning, a former Roman settlement and one of the oldest towns in Germany. After breakfast, we’ll disembark and travel to Bretten to visit the Melanchthon House, located on the site of the birthplace of 16, Monday reformer Philipp Melanchthon  Strasbourg, Alsace Region who was born in Bretten in 1497. This morning we’ll arrive in This is now a museum with Strasbourg, the French city an extensive library. We’ll then that figured prominently in the travel to the delightful city of Reformation. Calvin was exiled Heidelberg on the Neckar River. here from 1538 to 1541, during was called to which time he was the pastor defend his 95 Theses here, and of a congregation of French it was later home to Zacharius refugees. In addition, reformers Ursinus, author of the Heidelberg and Johannes Catechism. We’ll visit the Sturm lived and worked here. A romantic Heidelberg Castle and walking tour will introduce us to walk through the historic city Strasbourg’s Cathedral Quarter center to visit the University and Petite France, the city’s Library and the Protestant Holy well-preserved historic core. Ghost Church (where one of the Hedielberg Catechism’s major  We’ll also see the European Parliament and other European authors, Caspar Oleivanus, institutions headquartered in ministered), followed by time Strasbourg. We’ll return to the for an independent lunch. ship for lunch and then take an This afternoon we’ll travel to afternoon excursion to the lovely Worms (where Luther defended Alsace region. Back on board, himself before Roman Catholic we’ll have dinner and Dr. Beeke authorities at the will provide a lecture on Practical in 1521) to see the 19th-century Lessons from the Life of John , the largest Calvin. (B, L, D) Reformation monument in the world. We’ll rejoin the Amadeus Silver II in Mannheim and have dinner on board. Dr. Beeke will provide a lecture on the History and Legacy of the Heidelberg Cathechism this evening. (B, D)

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18, Wednesday 19, Thursday 20, Friday Rüdesheim, Mainz, Marburg, Herborn, Cologne Upper Middle Rhine Cochem We’ll dock in Cologne (Köln in Valley, Koblenz This morning we’ll take an German) this morning. This is We’ll arrive in Rüdesheim am excursion by motorcoach to Germany’s fourth largest city  Rhein this morning, at the Marburg, where Martin Luther and a former Roman colony. Our southern end of the Rhine and Ulrich Zwingli debated guided tour of the city includes Gorge. We’ll board the waiting during the the world-famous Cologne motorcoach for an excursion in 1529. Following a walking Cathedral, which is Germany’s to Mainz, where we’ll visit the tour of Marburg and time for most visited attraction, as well as Gutenberg Museum, home to an independent lunch, we’ll the Romano-Germanic Museum two original editions of the world- travel to Herborn, where the to see the Dionysus mosaic. famous Gutenberg Bible. Back Calvinist-Reformed Herborn We’ll also walk through the in Rüdesheim, we’ll re-board Academy was located from historic Old Town and see the the cruise ship and have lunch 1584 to 1817. Caspar Olevianus Jewish Quarter, Neumarkt, and as we cruise along the most was a rector and Johannes St. Maria im Kapitol. Returning beautiful part of the river—the Piscator was a professor here. to the cruise ship, we’ll have Upper Middle Rhine Valley. This We’ll then continue to the little a late lunch and spend the section boasts some 40 castles town of Cochem on the Moselle afternoon and evening on board and it has been the subject of River. If time allows, we’ll take with lectures by Dr. Hamilton on songs and legends, including a walking tour of Cochem’s the Five Solas of the Protestant the famous Lorelei. We’ll arrive historic center with its lovely Reformation. (B, L, D) in Koblenz at 3:30 p.m. and take half-timbered houses. Relax over a walking tour of the city that dinner on board as we cruise  includes the Church of Our Lady, towards Cologne. Dr. Hamilton the Basilica of St. Castor, and the will provide a lecture on the Schnägelbrunnen, a fountain by Five Solas of the Protestant the Town Hall. We’ll also stop at Reformation this evening. (B, D) the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial, at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle. After dinner on board, the evening will be at leisure, with the ship remaining docked in Koblenz for the night. B, L, D)

Rhine River Reformation Cruise | July 2018 22, Sunday Kralingseveer, Amersfoort, Woudenberg, Amersfoort We’ll have breakfast on board and bid farewell to the MS Amadeus Silver II as we go by motorcoach to Kralingseveer. Dr. Beeke will preach a sermon in English, with a Dutch translator, at the Laankerk at 10:00 a.m. (which belongs to the Hersteld Hervormde [Restored Reformed] denomination). After lunch, we’ll continue to Amersfoort, where we’ll check into our hotel, have some time to rest, and enjoy an early farewell dinner. Dr. Beeke will lead and preach at an all-English service for the Hertseld Hervormde church in Woudenberg at 6:30 p.m. We’ll return to Amersfoort for the night. (B, L, D)

23, Monday Return to the U.S. We’ll transfer to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport this morning to check in for the flights home. Our Rhine River Reformation Cruise 21, Saturday has certainly been beautiful, Dordrecht, Amsterdam educational, and richly rewarding! Early this morning, we’ll arrive (B, L-in flight) in the great city of Dordrecht, one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. After breakfast on board, we’ll disembark and visit the renowned Augustinijnenkerk (Augustinian Church), and then walk a half mile through the harbor section of the old city to the Great Church, where there will be displays in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of the famous Synod of Dordrecht (Dort) that was held here 1618- 1619. In rejecting Arminianism, the Synod of Dort composed the well-known Canons of Dort, which summarized what later  became known as The Five Points of . After time for an independent lunch, we’ll have the rest of the afternoon to explore Dordrecht before heading to Amsterdam. We’ll  Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, rejoin the MS Amadeus Silver II, Germany now docked in Amsterdam, for  Ariel view of the Great Church, a final dinner and overnight on Dordrecht, the Netherlands board. (B, D)  Castle in Marburg, Germany  Detail of Cologne Cathedral  Monument of Martin Luther in , Germany

July 2018 | Rhine River Reformation Cruise STATEROOM AMENITIES • Suites (26,4 m2 / 284 sq.ft.) with comfortable corner sofa, luxurious bathroom and walk- out exterior balcony • Staterooms (17,5 m2 /188 sq.ft.) on Strauss and Mozart Deck with drop-down panoramic windows • Staterooms (16 m2 /172 sq.ft.) on Haydn Deck with smaller panoramic windows (cannot be opened) Suite, Mozart Deck • Mini-Bar (all staterooms except on Haydn Deck) • Walk-in wardrobe ONBOARD FACILITIES • Choice of bed configuration: double or twin bed • Panorama-Restaurant • Panorama-Bar and Lounge • Flat-screen television • Amadeus-Club • Individual climate control • “Café Vienna” with Viennese • En-suite bathrooms with coffee specialities shower/WC • Outdoor glass-shielded “River • Bathrobe in Suites Terrace” • Sun Deck with Lido-Bar, lounge • Hair dryer Stateroom, Strauss and Mozart Deck chairs, shade awnings, giant • Direct dial telephone Chess Board and Shuffleboard • In-room safe • Fitness Room • Hair Salon, Massage Room • Gift Shop • Laundry Service • Complimentary bicycles onboard • Wi-Fi available • Elevator

Stateroom, Haydn Deck

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Tour Cost from chicago or grand rapids Based on double occupancy

$5,899 per person on the Haydn Deck

$6,199 per person on the Strauss Deck

$6,499 per person on the Mozart Deck

$6,999 per person for suites on the Mozart Deck

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