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By Ed Gerritsen, February 2004 and April 2011
Collection Overview
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church; professor at Reformed Theological College at Geelong, Australia; Dordt College at Sioux Center, Iowa; and Reformed Theological Seminary at Jackson, Mississippi; president of Trinity College at Palos Heights, Illinois; chairman of the Old Testament department at Andrew Jumper Theological Graduate Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and president of Christ for Russia. The collection includes addresses; sermons; chapel talks; devotionals; lectures; conference messages; articles; college materials; periodical clippings; general and family correspondence; family diaries; memoirs; papers; scrapbook; course materials; study guides; book manuscripts; and letters of call; correspondence and documents detailing Christ for Russia and International Theological Evangelical Ministries (ITEM); materials on the Latvia/RIGA program; and materials detailing various committees and positions served. Among the topics included are missions, various form of modernism facing the church, biblical revelation, and covenant. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Biographical Note
An ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church, Dr. Gerard Van Groningen Sr. earned his doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 1970. He was born in Leota, Minnesota on 25 March 1921 to Hendrick and Jennie. The family later moved to Ripon, California. Van Groningen enrolled at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. When he received his BD at Calvin Theological Seminary, he began his active ministry in the Borculo (Michigan) Christian Reformed Church, preaching his inaugural sermon Sunday, 2 October 1955. Classis Zeeland had admitted him to the ministry in a session 14 September 1955.
The ministry in the Borculo congregation ended when he and his family moved to Australia in 1958. The work in Australian continued until 1971. During that period, he served as minister of the Christian Reformed Church of Geelong, 1958-1961; Professor of Old Testament at the Reformed Theological Seminary, Geelong, Australia, 1961-1971.
Next the family moved to Iowa where he served as Professor of Bible at Dordt College from 1971-1973. The next few years, 1973-1980, he was professor of Old Testament at the Reformed Theological Seminary at Jackson, Mississippi. Before his retirement in 1984, Van Groningen was President of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois. While a heart condition limited his activities, he served as Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the Covenant Theological Seminary from 1985.
Among his writings are "Messianism in the Old Testament" and chapters in symposiums: "Genesis" in Interpreting God's Word Today (Baker); "The Final Question" in The Law and the Prophets (Reformed and Presbyterian Press); and "Australia and New Zeeland" in Lengthened Cords (Baker), in addition to Theological essays in Encyclopedia of Christianity, Theological Handbook of the Old Testament, and Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Ed. W. Elwell).
Van Groningen married Harriet Stuitje in 1949 and they have eight children, Betty Jane, Gerard Jr., John Philip, Willis Dean, Jay Henry, Beverly Grace, David Tom, and Charles Neil.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
38 Boxes
Acquisition Source:
G. Van Groningen
Other Note:
Acc. No. 03.25 and 11.06
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Ministerial Activities. Addresses],
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Series 2: Addresses. College Material],
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Series 3: Diaries, Scrapbook],
[
Series 4: The Unfinished Book],
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Series 5: Letters, 1967-1976],
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Series 6: Letters from Parents, 1954-1971],
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Series 7: Letters to Parents from Australia, 1959-1971],
[
Series 8: Correspondence, 1958-1997],
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Series 9: Papers],
[Series 10: Sermons and Lectures],
[
Series 11: Correspondence],
[
Series 12: Course Materials],
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All]
- Series 10: Sermons and Lectures
- Box 31
- Folder 1: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 1 --- undated
- Folder 2: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 2 --- undated
- Folder 3: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 3 --- undated
- Folder 4: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 4 --- undated
- Folder 5: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 5 --- undated
- Folder 6: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 6 --- undated
- Folder 7: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 7 --- undated
- Folder 8: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 8 --- undated
- Folder 9: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 9 --- undated
- Folder 10: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 10 --- undated
- Folder 11: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 11 --- undated
- Folder 12: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 12 --- undated
- Folder 13: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 13 --- undated
- Folder 14: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 14 --- undated
- Folder 15: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 15 --- undated
- Folder 16: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 16 --- undated
- Folder 17: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 17 --- undated
- Folder 18: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 18 --- undated
- Folder 19: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 19 --- undated
- Folder 20: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 20 --- undated
- Folder 21: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 21 --- undated
- Folder 22: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 22 --- undated
- Folder 23: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 23 --- undated
- Folder 24: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 24 --- undated
- Folder 25: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 25 --- undated
- Folder 26: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 26 --- undated
- Folder 27: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 27 --- undated
- Folder 28: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 28 --- undated
- Folder 29: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 29 --- undated
- Folder 30: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 30 --- undated
- Box 32
- Folder 1: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 31 --- undated
- Folder 2: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 32 --- undated
- Folder 3: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 33 --- undated
- Folder 4: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 34 --- undated
- Folder 5: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 35 --- undated
- Folder 6: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 36 --- undated
- Folder 7: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 37 --- undated
- Folder 8: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 38 --- undated
- Folder 9: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 39 --- undated
- Folder 10: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 40 --- undated
- Folder 11: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 41 --- undated
- Folder 12: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 42 --- undated
- Folder 13: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 43 --- undated
- Folder 14: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 44 --- undated
- Folder 15: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 45 --- undated
- Folder 16: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 46 --- undated
- Folder 17: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 47 --- undated
- Folder 18: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 48 --- undated
- Folder 19: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 49 --- undated
- Folder 20: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 50 --- undated
- Folder 21: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 51 --- undated
- Folder 22: Catechism sermon- Lord's Day 52 --- undated
- Folder 23: Sermon outline for series on TULIP --- undated
- Folder 24: Lecture series on book of Job
- Folder 25: Lectures and essays on hermeneutics
- Folder 26: Lecture series on eschatology
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Ministerial Activities. Addresses],
[
Series 2: Addresses. College Material],
[
Series 3: Diaries, Scrapbook],
[
Series 4: The Unfinished Book],
[
Series 5: Letters, 1967-1976],
[
Series 6: Letters from Parents, 1954-1971],
[
Series 7: Letters to Parents from Australia, 1959-1971],
[
Series 8: Correspondence, 1958-1997],
[
Series 9: Papers],
[Series 10: Sermons and Lectures],
[
Series 11: Correspondence],
[
Series 12: Course Materials],
[
All]
