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 5: Seminary Material --- 1918-1951

Box 7

Folder 1: Encyclopaedies Vragen. Notebook II --- undated

Folder 2: Ethics notes --- undated

Folder 3: Geschiedenis der Philosophie. Notebook. Handwritten --- undated

Folder 4: Niewe Philosophies. Notes --- undated

Folder 5: Our Theological School in relation to the American world. Article in The Reformed Journal; translation --- September 1951

Folder 6: Philosophie. Notebook. Handwritten --- undated

Folder 7: Philosophie, Dr. Woltjer, Idieel en Rieel. Notebook. Notes handwritten --- undated

Folder 8: Psychologie. Notes --- undated

Folder 9: Rapport van Kuiper, Keizer, De Jong in zake Kerk en School. Letterlijk afschrift --- undated

Folder 10: Reformed Doctrine of Incarnation. Student paper of George Goris. Handwritten. English --- undated

Folder 11: Schets der Psychologie. Handwritten --- undated

Folder 12: Scholastiek I en II. Notebooks. Handwritten --- undated

Folder 13: Strijd over Absolutheid van het Christendom. Address to Curatorium, professors, students. (Dutch) --- undated

Folder 14: Student papers. Relation between Historia Revelationis and History of Dogma --- undated

Folder 15: Student papers: Predestinatie

Item 1: Geree --- undated
Item 2: Spalink --- 1920
Item 3: Medendorp --- undated
Item 4: Pekelder --- undated
Item 5: Kooi --- undated
Item 6: Essenburg --- undated
Item 7: Holtrop --- undated
Item 8: Dykstra --- undated
Item 9: Lyzenga --- undated
Item 10: Huizenga --- undated
Item 11: Bronkema --- undated
Item 12: Joling --- undated
Item 13: DeKoekoek --- undated
Item 14: Vanlaar --- undated
Item 15: Spoelhof --- undated, [1918?-1920]

Folder 16: Synoptische Problem en zijne Oplossing. Paper. Handwritten --- undated

Folder 17: Theologische Ethiek. Notes --- undated

Folder 18: Strijd voor het recht. Paper on Bavinck material. Handwritten --- undated