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Abstract „The prominent German theologian August Tholuck (1799–1877) stood in close contact with several leading persons in the Dutch nineteenth-century religious, theological, and ecclesiastical field. However, recent historiography has hardly paid any attention to the relation between Tholuck’s theology and the Dutch situation. This article discusses how Tholuck’s theology functioned in the context of Dutch theological debates on rationalism and biblical and religious authority. The article thereby, on the one hand, shows how in Tholuck’s theology the dialectic between subjective religious experience and objective religious truth was mediated. On the other, it analyses how nineteenth-century theology was internationally connected.“