Rhine River Reformation 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, Michigan, 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 Speyer 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 Geneva 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 Rhine River Reformation Cruise | July 2018 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 Waldensians. (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 John Calvin’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 Luther Monument, Worms Basel, Switzerland Heidelberg, Germany Rhine River Reformation Cruise | July 2018 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 Martin Luther 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 Martin Bucer 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 Diet of Worms will provide a lecture on Practical in 1521) to see the 19th-century Lessons from the Life of John Luther monument, 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.