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Frederick Nymeyer Collection, 1932-1972

Collection Overview

Title: Frederick Nymeyer Collection, 1932-1972

ID: COLL/390

Creator: Nymeyer, Frederick (1897-1981)

Extent: 0.5 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

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- ).

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: [General Materials]
Box 1
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