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Collection Overview
Abstract
Layman of the Christian Reformed Church; economist; and business consultant. The collection includes communications to the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church regarding church publications and the church's position on divorce; two articles published in Progressive Calvinism entitled "Academic Freedom at Calvin College" and "Sex is Not Sin"; and other articles entitled "Definition of Adultery," "The Social Gospel Malady," "Individualism and Altruism," and "What is Truth?"
Biographical Note
Frederick Nymeyer (12 November 1897, Hull, IA - February 1981, South Holland, IL) was an industrialist who founded the Libertarian Press that brought the economic writings of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk to the United States. The Press's pamphlets argue against the social gospel, socialism, and communism. Nymeyer also debated Common Grace with his denomination, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, accepting instead a position similar to that advocated by Herman Hoeksema and the Protestant Reformed Churches.
The second of four children born to Martin B. and Elizabeth (neé Kastijn, also Kastein) Nymeyer, Frederick married Cornelia Wesselina Haeck. They had six children: Martin Benjamin (1923-1988), Maurice W. (1924-2011), Elizabeth (1927-1929), Philip G. (1930-2007), Eliot Kastein (1933-2013), and Cornelius W. (1936- ).
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- Folder 1: Pamphlet, Prohibited Marriages --- 1932
- Folder 2: Paper, "Definition of Adultery in Four Major Gospel Texts" --- 1937
- Folder 3: Communication re: overture concerning mixed marriages at Classis Illinois --- 1939
- Folder 4: Communication to Classis Illinois re: overture of First Cicero on mixed marriages --- 1940
- Folder 5: Communication, overture regarding editorial policies, publication committee and editorial staff of the Banner to Synod of 1941, 1940-1941 --- 1940-1941
- Folder 6: Communication, counter-overture on divorce to the Synod of 1945
- Folder 7: Pamphlet, Remarriage Casuistry --- 1946
- Folder 8: Pamphlet, Most-important and Oldest Controversy in the Christian Reformed Church (supplement to Remarriage Casuistry) --- 1946
- Folder 9: Communication, Miscellaneous Observations on Report 21 of the Divorce Committee --- 1947
- Folder 10: Paper, "Various Thoughts on the Restoration to Church Membership of Unscripturally Divorced and Remarried Persons" --- 1947
- Folder 11: Communication re: Philanthropy --- 1951
- Folder 12: Booklet, Stob-Bouma Solemn Race Declarations --- 1954
- Folder 13: Progressive Calvinism, vol. 2, no. 5 "Academic Freedom at Calvin College," and "Sex is Not Sin" --- May 1956
- Folder 14: Booklet, Minimal Religion --- 1964
- Folder 15: Booklet, Origin of Damnation and Sin is Not by Inheritance but is Cosmological --- 1967
- Folder 16: Paper, "What is Truth?" --- 1970
- Folder 17: Article, "Social Gospel Malady" --- 1971
- Folder 18: Article, "Individualism and Altruism" --- 1972
- Folder 19: Report of the committee appointed by the May Classis to study the overture of First Cicero re: mixed marriages, and remaining problems --- undated
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