COLL/313 Guide to the Leonard Verduin Collection Verduin, Leonard Collection

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Guide to the Leonard Verduin Collection 1884/1997 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Leonard Verduin Collection 1884-1997 COLL/313 Verduin, Leonard, 1897-1999 5.00 10 Boxes Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church.  The collection includes:  papers; manuscripts; correspondence in response to articles published in The Banner, and The Reformed Journal, and to the publications Somewhat Less than God, and The Reformers and Their Stepchildren; plus, correspondence from his Ann Arbor chapel period.
Biographical Information:

Leonard Verduin was born in South Holland, Illinois on March 9, 1897. Young Verduin grew up on a farm in South Dakota. Faced with economic hardship, Verduin did not complete his high school education until he was 21. By this time, he had married Hattie Timmermans. Verduin went on to further his education at Calvin Theological Seminary where he earned his Th.B. in 1929 and earned a Master's degree from the University of Michigan.

Verduin and his family traveled to Corsica, South Dakota, where Verduin accepted the call to serve the Corsica CRC. He remained at the Corsica CRC for twelve years. In 1941 Verduin accepted the challenge of becoming the pastor of the Christian Reformed Chapel at the University of Michigan. Rev. Verduin served the students of the University of Michigan until his retirement in 1962.

The Verduins retired in Arizona. During retirement, Rev Verduin stayed busy by teaching courses at the University of Arizona. He also published a number of books such as The Reformers and their Stepchildren. Leonard Verduin passed away at the age of 102 on November 11, 1999.

Arrangement of Materials:

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Detailed List of Contents id25555 Verduin Correspondence 1929-1997 id25556 1 id25557 1 1 Correspondence 1929-1930 id25558 1 2-5 Correspondence 1941-1980 id25559 1 6 Correspondence undated id25560 1 7 Manuscript, "Grace Mixing" [1997?] id25561 1 8 Correspondence 1900-1997 id25562 Articles and Periodicals 1944-1992 id25563 2 id25564 2 1 Articles 1951-1992 id25565 2 2 Toward a Theistic Creationism; [HERH BT695.V4] [195-?] id25566 2 3 The Calvin Forum, Vol. IX, no. 9 April 1944 id25567 2 4 Christianity Today, Vol. IX, no. 17 May 1965 id25568 2 5 Essays on Luther 1969 id25569 2 6 The Mennonite Quarterly Review 1950, 1960-1961 id25570 2 7 HIS, Vol. 9 no.4 January 1949 id25571 2 8 The Reformed Journal 1954-1956, 1958, 1960-1963 id25572 Miscellaneous Unidentified Manuscripts undated id25573 3-4 Miscellaneous unidentified manuscripts id25574 Papers and Manuscripts undated id25575 5 id25576 5 1 Papers, "Religions in our Schools," "In God's Image," "Like Unto Its Maker," "We Watch the Wrecker," "Campers Move In," "More on that Nasty Article 36," "Where She Went Wrong," "Curse?" id25577 5 2 Papers, "Common Grace and Its Bearing on Church and State," "Geared to the Times?" "What is it to Discern the Body?" "Women in Heaven?" "A Passage Wrongly Used?" id25578 5 3 Paper, "Do These United States Need Sacrament?" id25579 5 4 Papers, "Obsolete?" "What's Going On Here?" "As to Election" "In Trouble with Doctrine of Reprobation," "Tuning the Third Note," "Another Holiday Heresy?" "Secular and Rightly So," "Now That We Are No Longer Dutch Speaking," "The Apostasy at Babel," "More of Reformanda Est" id25580 5 5 Papers, "The Why of Predestination," "On Deacons," "Poor Huldreich," "Walking Out," "Bothered by the Greek Mind," "Which Lobe?" "Church Discipline" id25581 5 6 Papers, "Theology and Faith," "God's Redemptive Enterprise and the State," "Roles," "Do You Understand What You See?" "The Battle for Cleofan," "Calvin on Communism," "What is the Gospel?" id25582 5 7 Papers, "Who Paganized the German Church?" "Why Bother About Election?" "Is the Bible for the Initiate Only?" "Religion and Media," Out Of or Along With," "Robert Kennedy in South Africa" id25583 5 8 Papers, "Christ and Christendom" id25584 5 9 Papers, "Whence the Problem?" "Zealotry," "The People with the Book," "On Being Prejudiced," "Time to Heed the Old Motto?" "Holocaust and Harlot," "More about Baptizing Babies" id25585 5 10 Paper on the Move Toward Sacramentalism id25586 5 11 Papers, "Why a Predestination Theology?" "Another Wall to Tear Down," "Not Discerning the Body," "Religion in our Schools?" "Trinity and Family" id25587 5 12 Paper on Women's Issue in CRC; paper, "To See What We Would Call Them"; Reformed Journal article, "Biblical Christianity and Cultural Composition"; paper, "Bring Children to Communion?" id25588 5 13 Paper, "Pre-Reformation Protestantism in the Lowlands" id25589 5 14 Papers, "As to Man," "As to Human Society," "As to the Gospel and As to Reprobation," "Was Paul Writing Subjectively?" "The Why of Predestination", "The Creature Known as Man" id25590 6 id25591 6 1 Papers, "No More Sermons?" "Tuning the Third Note," "Maranatha! Or Maranatha?" "Birds of a Feather," "That Trouble Giving Sentence," "John Calvin and the Belgic Confession" id25592 6 2 Banner articles, "Still Another Bad Addition," "The Anatomy of Prejudice," "Report of a Discussion" id25593 6 3 Papers, "The Priority of the Manward Thrust," "Endorsement?" "Vinegar," "It is Time for the CRC to Stop Being Odd," "Mass-Religion or Mis-Religion," "Common Grace and Its Bearing on Church and State" id25594 6 4 Papers, "Honor Your __ __ Mother," "Christian Ethics and Capital Punishment," "Heritage of Heretics," "The Nazis and Christianity," "Who Paganized the German Church?" id25595 6 5 Papers, "Was the Religion of the Old Testament a Realm-Religion?" "The Ethic Antecedent," "Are Christians an Endangered Species?" "Christendom and Anti-Semitism" id25596 6 6 Unidentified papers, probably incomplete id25597 6 7 Paper, title unknown id25598 6 8 Portion of paper, title unknown id25599 6 9 Articles submitted to the Banner for publication (rejected for publication) id25600 6 10 Article, "Expository Notes on I Cor. 13: 9-13" and paper, "Greek" id25601 6 11 Study series, "Creation/Evolution," "Subject Role/Object Role," and "Son of Man/Son of God" id25602 6 12 Study on a pamphlet by C. W. Wormser on Christian baptism id25603 6 13 A short discourse sent to Connie id25604 7 id25605 7 1 Manuscript, "Reformers and Their Stepchildren" id25606 7 2 Manuscript, "Do These United States Need Sacrament" id25607 7 3 Unidentified manuscript id25608 7 4 Manuscript, "Where She Went Wrong" (incomplete) id25609 7 5 Manuscript on subject of sacrament (completeness not known) id25610 7 6 Manuscript, "The Belgic Confession-A New Look from a New Perspective" id25611 7 7 Manuscript, "Heaven is for Heretics" (Part I) id25612 7 8 Manuscript, "Heaven is for Heretics" (Part II) id25613 8 id25614 8 1 Manuscript, "Where We Went Wrong: Study of History of Christendom" (Chapters 1-6) id25615 8 2 Manuscript, "Where We Went Wrong: Study of History of Christendom" (Chapters 7-12) id25616 8 3 Manuscript, "Sacrament is Not Prominent in Authentic Christianity" id25617 8 4 Manuscript, "Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy" (first four chapters) id25618 8 5 Manuscript, "Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy" (Chapter 5 through part two) id25619 8 6 Manuscript, "We and Our Motto" id25620 8 7 Manuscript, "The Reformers and Their Step Children" (preface and chapter 1) id25621 8 8 Manuscript, "The Obituary of Christendom" id25622 9 id25623 9 1 Handwritten manuscripts (unidentified) id25624 9 2-3 Portion of manuscript, title unknown id25625 9 4 Manuscript of proposed book on the first amendment (not final form) id25626 9 5 Handwritten manuscript, "For Whom the World Was Not Worthy" id25627 9 6 Unidentified manuscript id25628 10 id25629 10 1 Manuscript, "Church History Study in Eight Scenes" id25630 10 2 Speech at AFRYWS Convention, "The Reformed Doctrine of Inspiration and Bible Study Methods" October 1936 id25631 10 3 Account, "Trois Millions a Or" (Three Million Guilders) id25632 10 4 Writings, " Heretics in Flanders" id25633 10 5 Manuscript, "Truth is Elliptical" id25634 10 6 Notes, "Anabaptist Origins" id25635 10 7 English translation, minutes of early Reformed Church: kruis kercken id25636 10 8 Manuscript, "Der Codex Teplensis Enthaltend Di Schrift Dez Newen Gezeugz" 1964 id25637 10 9 Book, The United Undivided Church of God 1978 id25638 10 10 Book, Guido de Bray Zijn Leven en Werken 1884 id25639 10 11 Book, Guy de Bres 1960