Hendrik Kraemer

Hendrik Kraemer was a lay missiologist and figure in the ecumenical movement from Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands. He encouraged the Dutch to allow the spread of missionary activities outside of the Dutch East India Company-restricted area in eastern Indonesia to the rest of the archipelago.

Biography

Kraemer lost his parents at 12 years old, and stayed in an orphanage, where at the age of 16, he decided to become a missionary. Kraemer got married in 1919. He learned the Bible by himself, and he never entered theological seminary.
On the question of theology of religions, Kraemer supported an exclusivist understanding of religion.