Foppe Martin Ten Hoor Collection, 1880-1951 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

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Collection Overview

Title: Foppe Martin Ten Hoor Collection, 1880-1951

ID: COLL/254

Primary Creator: Ten Hoor, Foppe Martin (1855-1934)

Extent: 3.75 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church, professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, 1900-1924, and editor of De Gereformeerde Amerikaan. The collection includes: sermon outlines, lectures, class notes, guidelines for sermon criticism, Grundy College reports, correspondence, plus bound manuscripts entitled: "Compendium der gereformeerde dogmatiek, "Gereformeerde ethiek," "Lectures on Exegesis," and "Lectures of Systematic and Practical Theology."

Biographical Note

Foppe Martin Ten Hoor was born 19 February 1855 in Haulerwijk, Friesland, the Netherlands. His theological education was at the Theological School of Kampen. His ministry in the Netherlands included the following churches: Genderen, 1880-1884; Opperdoes, 1884-1888; and Franeker, 1888-1896. He received a call from the Oakdale Park Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids and served that congregation from 1896-1900. A year after his ministry at Oakdale he began to serve as editor of de Gereformeerde Amerikaan (1897-1916). In 1900, he was called to the Chair of Systematic Theology of the seminary in Grand Rapids. Here he occupied the chair until 1924 when he was almost seventy. He passed away 21 March 1934. Ten Hoor had been married to Elizabeth Petronella Kok since 1880.

Ten Hoor served on denominational committees, which included the committee on the divorce question and the committee on South Africa.

Although not all agreed with his theological views, they respected him "for his intellectual acumen and never doubted his sincerity."

Our collection includes bound volumes of his theological works as well as many notes on theology. We have theological books on our shelves as well as a variety of theological thoughts in notebooks and slips of paper. His years of service were when the Dutch language was used.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Bound Copies of Theological Works, 1890 - [193- ]],
[Series 2: General Material, Classical/Synodical Material, 1883-1924],
[Series 3: Classical/Synodical Material: Papers, Reports, 1880-1925],
[Series 4: Sermonic Material, Seminary Material, 1898-1917],
[Series 5: Seminary Material, 1918-1951],
[Series 6: General Information, 1887-1910],
[All]

Series 4: Sermonic Material, Seminary Material --- 1898-1917

Box 6

Folder 1: Sermonic Material: Biduur voor de Ontrouwe Dooplidmaten, Zondagavon, 16 October 1898; Notes --- undated
Folder 2: Sermonic Material: Church and School issue. Sermoen de nuttigheyyd des Academien en Scholen. Voetius. Notes --- undated
Folder 3: Sermonic Material: Guidelines for sermon criticism --- 1917
Folder 4: Sermonic Material: First Corinthians 1. Notes --- undated
Folder 5: Sermonic Material: Herinnering van onze dooden. Voor den laatsten avond van het jaar --- undated
Folder 6: Sermonic Material: Old Testament and New Testament sermons. Outlined. Dutch --- undated
Folder 7: Text Registry, Opgave van teksten waarover ik…gepreekt heb. --- 1880-1908
Folder 8: Sermonic Material: Notes on student sermons --- undated
Folder 9: Seminary Material: Calvijn in het onderwijs. Notes --- undated
Folder 10: Seminary Material: Catalogue Theol. Library (Dutch) --- undated
Folder 11: Seminary Material: Dogmatiek notes. Handwritten --- undated
Folder 12: Seminary Material: Dogmatiek notes in two notebooks Handwritten --- undated
Folder 13: Seminary Material: Dogmatiek I. Handwritten notes in notebook --- undated
Folder 14: Seminary Material: Dogmatiek II. Antropologie. Also Sacra Scripta, Handwritten notes in one bound notebook --- undated
Folder 15: Seminary Material: Dogmatiek. Inleiding I en II. Notebooks --- undated
Folder 16: Seminary Material: Encyclopaedie of human naturr and physiognomy, by Prof. A.E. Willis. Notes --- undated