Jan H. Boer Collection, 1966-2003 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

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Collection Overview

Title: Jan H. Boer Collection, 1966-2003

ID: COLL/563

Primary Creator: Boer, Jan H. (1938-)

Other Creators: Boer, Frances A. (1942-)

Extent: 4.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Nigerian missionary; Director of the Institute of Church and Society; Lecturer; Researcher and Writer. This collection includes correspondence, reviews, and articles.

Biographical Note

Jan (John) Harm Boer was born in Lutjegast, the Netherlands in 1938. Boer and his family immigrated to British Columbia, Canada in 1951. Boer became a student at Calvin College, graduating in 1962. He went on to Calvin Theological Seminary where he earned his BD in 1965. While pursuing his higher education, visiting lecturers influenced him to pursue missionary work in Africa. After a year of taking African studies at Michigan State University, Boer travelled to Nigeria and became a church developer. In 1979, Boer earned his ThD from the Free Reformed University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From 1977-1993, Boer served as Director then Consultant at the Institute of Church & Society in Jos, Nigeria. He continued to lecture in Jos, Nigeria until 1996 when he returned to North America to work as a free-lance researcher and writer on Christian-Muslim issues.

Boer uses the website https://socialtheology.com/ to publish his writings and other material of personal and professional interest.

Administrative Information

Repository: Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

Related Materials: A collection on Christian-Muslim Relations in Nigeria is available at Yale University. For more information please see https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/4/resources/193.

Other Note: Boer maintains a website of his writings.

Other URL: https://socialtheology.com/index.html

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Series 1: General Material

Box 1

Folder 1-8: Correspondence --- 1966-1986

Box 2

Folder 1-6: Correspondence --- 1987-1998

Box 3

Folder 1: Biographical Information
Folder 2: Profile of Jan Boer – “A Position for Justice” Catalyst --- 1994
Folder 3: Semi-Annual Reports (Nigeria)
Folder 4: Speech – “Christian Work on the University Campus” --- 1977
Folder 5: Speech – “Missions and Colonialism” --- 1980
Folder 6: Speech – “WHC in a Biomedical Setting” --- 1991
Folder 7: Speeches on Wholistic Care
Folder 8: Speech – “Youth Participation In and Outside the Church Today” --- 1979
Folder 9: Pamphlet – “The Kingdom of God: More than Myself, Morality, Church” --- 1977
Folder 10: Pamphlet – “The Rural People – Victims of Social Change in Nigeria” --- 1978
Folder 11: Paper – “An Example of a Concrete Christian Approach to Politics” --- 1977
Folder 12: Paper – “Aspects of the Effects of Wealth on the Church’s Mission” --- 1977
Folder 13: Paper – “Being Reformed in Contemporary Nigeria” --- 1993
Folder 14: Paper –“ John Calvin’s Approach to Politics and Government”
Folder 15: Paper – “A Christian Universe – Reflections on the Cross and Common Grace” --- 1964
Folder 16: Paper – “Christianity – A Religion of Power” --- 1993
Folder 17: Paper – “Christianity in Northern Nigeria”
Folder 18: Paper – “CL Alive!” --- 1999
Folder 19: Paper – “Conditions for Evangelism” --- 1992
Folder 20: Paper – “Dalai Lama and the Warm Heart” --- 2004
Folder 21: Paper – “Development: A Matter of the Heart” --- 1994
Folder 22: Paper – “Dutch Reflections on God’s Word: A History of the Reformed Doctrine of Scripture from Kuyper to the Present” --- 1969
Folder 23: Paper – “Evangelism in Nigeria” --- 1971
Folder 24: Paper – “Immanuel: God With Us” --- 1964
Folder 25: Paper – “Miracles: Some Propositions” --- 1996
Folder 26: Paper – “Mission and Honey” --- 1971
Folder 27: Paper – “Missionary Dualism Versus the Holistic World View of the Bible” --- 1980
Folder 28: Paper – “The Nigerian Christian Muslem Standoff” --- 2000
Folder 29: Paper – “Nigerian Evangelical Concerns” --- 1975
Folder 30: Paper – “The Politico-Colonial Context of Missions in Norther Africa” --- 1983
Folder 31: Paper – “Radical Mission Thinking” --- 1991
Folder 32: Paper – “Some Suggestions for Renewal in Christian Socio-Economic Thought and Practice” --- 1982
Folder 33: Paper – “Teaching Religious Knowledge in Context” --- 1981
Folder 34: Paper – “Too Good or Not Good Enough?” --- 2000
Folder 35: Paper – “The Voice of Islam” --- 2001
Folder 36: Paper – “WWW: Wholistic World Witness” --- 2008
Folder 37: Paper – “The Whole Gospel for Modern Nigeria” --- 1981
Folder 38: Paper – “Wholistic Health Care” --- 2000
Folder 39: Paper – “Wholistic Health Care in a Medical Setting” --- 1991
Folder 40: Overview of CRWM Mission in Nigeria --- 1991
Folder 41: Introduction of Mr. Noble Obani-Nwibari --- 1997
Folder 42: Seminar Report –“ In Search of Holistic Health Care” --- 1981
Folder 43: Newspaper Clippings
Folder 44: Letters to Editors
Folder 45: N.E.A.C. Northern Education Advising Council
Folder 46: Lecture – “The Christian in the Secular World” --- 1977
Folder 47: Lecture – “Retooling Our Approach to Sharia: A Wholistic and Pluralistic Perspective”
Folder 48: Lecture – “A Tiger in Your Tank - The Anatomy of Christian Reformed Missiology” Calvin Seminary --- 1987
Folder 49: Lecture – “The Relevance of Theological Education in the 21^st Century” --- 1996
Folder 50: Lecture – “Wholistic Health Care – What is It?” --- 1991

Box 4

Folder 1: Book Review – Timothy Monsma’s An Urban Strategy for Africa --- 1979
Folder 2: Book Review – Boer’s Studies in Christian Moslem Relations by Bert den Boggend --- 2009
Folder 3: Book Review – Boer’s Christian and Muslims: Parameters for Living Together by Timothy Palmer --- 2009
Folder 4: Book Review – Paul Gifford’s Christianity and Politics in Doe’s Liberia --- 1995
Folder 5: Book Review – The Church and the External Debit by Bala Dogo --- 1993
Folder 6: Book Review - Jerry Rieger’s Liberating the Future: God, Mammon and Theology --- 2000
Folder 7: Book Review - John Gladwin’s God’s People in God’s World: Biblical Motives for Social Involvement --- 1981
Folder 8: Book Review: Missions: Heralds of Capitalism or Christ? By Ala Chattaway --- 1988
Folder 9: Book Review: F. O. Segun’s Pathways to Survival in Nigeria --- 1988
Folder 10: Book Review: Eugene Rubingh’s Sons of Tiv --- 1968
Folder 11: Thesis - The Last of the Livingstones: A Study of H. Karl W. Kumm’s Missiological Conception of Civilization, University of Amsterdam --- 1973
Folder 12: Essay – “Christianity and Islam Under Colonialism in Northern Nigeria” --- 1988
Folder 13: “The Challenge of the Green Revolution to the Church” --- 1980
Folder 14: Article – “The Affluent Nd His Credibility” The Banner --- 1976
Folder 15: Article – “The Anatomy of Miss World” Christian Courier --- 2003
Folder 16: Article – “Au Bere Schulden und das Evangelium” in Zeitschrift fur Mission --- 1993
Folder 17: Article – "Being Reformed in Contemporary America”
Folder 18: Articles ”The Body of Christ in Emerging Nigeria” The Nigerian Christian --- 1971
Folder 19: Article – “Bribery Plugs Our Conscience” Hausa Language --- 1980
Folder 20: Article – “Called to be a Missionary of the Kingdom” Vanguard --- 1972
Folder 21: Article – “The Church Reforming in Nigeria” --- 1992
Folder 22: Article – “D-Day – God Saves His People” The Word --- 1995
Folder 23: Article – “Enlarging the Reformed Tent…for Signs and Wonders” Christian Courier --- 1994
Folder 24: Article – “Enoch” --- 1970
Folder 25: Article – “Fighting Communism--A Walk with the Lord” Part 2 --- 1982
Folder 26: Article – “How the Church can be Involved in Rural Development” Nigerian Christian --- 1980
Folder 27: Article – “Kingdom Vision is Transforming Churches in Nigeria” --- 1992
Folder 28: Article – Kiriamati a Nyankwala” Calvinist Contact --- 1970
Folder 29: Article – “Kuyper the Evangelical” Christian Courier --- 2014
Folder 30: Article – “Miracles and Healing” Alum News --- 1994
Folder 31: Article – “No Tangled Fishing Lines” The Banner --- 1989
Folder 32: Article – “Opening the Reformed World to the Powers” Perspectives --- 1994
Folder 33: Article – “Old Wine in New Skins” Christian Courier --- 1998
Folder 34: Article – “Opening the Reformed World to Powers” Perspectives --- 1994
Folder 35: "Open Letter to the Christian Reformed Church in Canada” Calvinist Contact
Folder 36: Article – “Pluralism and World Missions in the CRC” --- 1975
Folder 37: Article – “Questionable Proposals” Calvinist Contact --- 1974
Folder 38: Article – Relating to Moslems in a Post 9/11/World” --- 2008
Folder 39: Article – “Reparations: A Hidden Agenda?” Todays Challenge --- 1992
Folder 40: Article – “Role of Worldview”
Folder 41: Article – “A Short History of the WHC Project” --- 1984
Folder 42: Article – “The Struggle of Becoming” Calvinist Contact --- 1969
Folder 43: Article – “Sons of Tiv” International Reformed Bulletin --- 1972
Folder 44: Article – “Western Christian-Mosem Relations in the Current Crisis” --- 2002
Folder 45: Article – “Where Were You Then?” The Banner --- 1982
Folder 46: Article – “The World Financial System is a Great Cause of Hunger in Africa than Drought"
Folder 47: Articles on Abraham Kuyper

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