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Collection Overview
Title: Herman Kuiper Collection, 1915-1962
ID: COLL/154
Primary Creator: Herman Kuiper (1889-1963)
Extent: 7.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Biographical Note
Herman Kuiper was born in the Netherlands, December 18, 1889, the youngest of the eight children of Rev. Klaas Kuiper. When he was very young, his family moved to the United States, to the Chicago area.
After graduating from our seminary in 1913, he attended Princeton Theological Seminary for two years. Interrupting his studies there because of World War I, he entered the ministry serving in the Rock Valley, Iowa, church and in Oakdale Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, until 1925. Then a three-year leave of absence enabled him to get his doctoral degree at the Free University. His ministry then took him to Fourth Roseland, Chicago, Illinois; Rock Valley for a second time; and Second Redlands, California. In 1952, Dr. Kuiper was appointed as professor of systematic theology at Calvin Seminary, serving until his retirement in 1958. Herman Kuiper passed away due to a ruptured aorta on January 13, 1963 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was survived by his wife of 48 years.
The collection of his sermons and articles shows him to be a careful exegeter of God’s Word, and a sensitive pastor of God’s people.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Addresses and Articles, 1916-1962],
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Series 2: Sermon Booklets, 1915-1950],
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- Series 1: Addresses and Articles --- 1916-1962
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Photograph Album - trip to the Netherlands --- [1927?]
- Folder 2: Addresses:
- Item 1: Educational --- 1916-1924
- Item 2: The minister's message, graduation --- 1923
- Item 3: The minister's message, seminary commencement --- June 4, 1923
- Item 4: "Our Dependence on God,"school dedication --- January 25, 1924
- Item 5: Schoolrede, Ireton, Iowa --- June 28, 1916
- Folder 3: Addresses:
- Item 1: Missions --- 1916-1934
- Item 2: "Schriftstudie,"Hull, Iowa --- April 14, 1916
- Item 3: "The Missionary's Task," Pella, Iowa --- August 22, 1934
- Item 4: "Zendingsrede" --- 1916
- Folder 4: Addresses:
- Item 1: Varia adult groups --- 1925-1940
- Item 2: Coram Deo, Young Men's League --- 1938, 1940
- Item 3: "Influence of Life of William of Orange" --- April 24, 1933
- Item 4: "Luther and the Reformation," Men's Society --- 1925
- Item 5: "Our Greatest Danger," Men's Society --- 1925
- Item 6: "Our Greatest Danger," Women's Society --- 1929
- Item 7: "Signs of the Times," Men's Society --- 1934
- Folder 5: Addresses: Youth - Sermon series --- 1934
- (incomplete)
- Item 1: "Don't Sit on the Fence”
- Item 2: "Dare Stand Alone"
- Item 3: "Dare Attempt the Impossible"
- Item 4: "Dare to Be Intolerant"
- Item 5: "Dare Exceed the Common Code"
- Item 6: "Dare Say Yes"
- Item 7: "The Secret of Courage and Strength"
- Folder 6: Articles for The Banner --- 1939, 1940
- Item 1: "A Half-truth in Our Catechism'" --- [undated]
- Item 2: "If Not: What Then?" --- March 21, 1940
- Item 3: "The Latest Move Toward Church Union" --- [undated]
- Item 4: "Lest We Forget" --- December 14, 1939
- Item 5: "Luther: A Chosen Vessel" --- [undated]
- Item 6: "Our Fortress Impregnable" --- [undated]
- Item 7: "Where are the One Thousand and Fourteen?" --- May 19, 1939
- Folder 7: Articles: Varia --- [undated]
- Item 1: "Architecture, Christian"
- Item 2: "Teaching of Jesus on Inspiration of Old Testament"
- Item 3: "Shall We Continue Catechism Preaching?"
- Folder 8
- Item 1: Book review, Man, the Image of God, G.C. Berkhouwer --- 1962
- Folder 9
- Item 1: Menus on the E. S. Noordam --- July 1954
- Folder 10
- Item 1: Messages from Pastor Kuiper on Christmas and Easter --- [undated]
- Folder 11
- Item 1: Paper, "Dogmatics: Man in the State of Sin" --- [undated]
- Folder 12
- Item 1: Paper, "Notes on the Doctrine of the Trinity" --- [undated]
- Folder 13
- Item 1: Program of Kuiper's doctoral promotion, Free University of Amsterdam --- July 9, 1923
- Folder 14
- Item 1: Sermon of Lord's Day 37, "The Use of the Oath" --- February 28, 1937
- Folder 15
- Item 1: Paper, "Notes on Ecclesiology" --- [undated]
- Series 2: Sermon Booklets --- 1915-1950
- Box 2
- Item 1: Old Testament: Genesis to Malachi --- 1917-1944
- Box 3
- Item 1: New Testament: Matthew to Luke --- 1917-1947
- Box 4
- Item 1: New Testament: John to Romans --- 1917-1947
- Box 5
- Item 1: New Testament: Galatians to Jude --- 1917-1947
- Box 6
- Item 1: Revelation and some occasions --- 1921-1950
- Item 2: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 1-28 --- 1915-1944
- Item 3: Sermon Booklets --- 1915-1944
- Item 4: Miscellaneous --- 1936-1950
- Box 7
- Folder 1: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 1-28 --- 1915-1944
- Folder 2: Chicago Situation: A Word of Warning to the Churches --- 1936
- [HERH LC586.C6 K84]
- Folder 3: Summary of the Christian Religion --- 1949, 1950
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- 1937
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Series 1: Addresses and Articles, 1916-1962],
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