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Collection Overview
Title: Peter Yemen De Jong Collection, 1911-2005
ID: COLL/049
Primary Creator: De Jong, Peter Yemen (1915-2005)
Extent: 13.0 Boxes. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Subjects: Christian education, Christian Reformed Church, Christian Reformed Church - Missions, De Jong, Peter Y. (Peter Ymen), 1915-2005, India, South - Religious life and customs, Missions - India, South
Abstract
Former minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes study manuals, family letters, materials relating to India, addresses, lectures, sermons, class papers, catechism materials, study outlines, course materials, unpublished manuscripts, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, thesis, letters of call, notebooks, correspondence, and clippings. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Biographical Note
Son of Rev. Yemen Peter De Jong, Peter Yemen De Jong was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1915. De Jong graduated from Calvin College and Seminary in 1939. Joanne H. Heyns took De Jong’s hand in marriage in 1940. Together they had six children. De Jong was ordained into the CRC ministry in 1940 and served the Preakness Christian Reformed Church. At the same time, he was attending Hartford Theological Seminary. De Jong received his Ph.D. from Hartford in 1942.
From 1942-1948, The Rev. Peter Yemen De Jong went on to serve the church communities of Alpine Avenue CRC and Oakdale Park CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During 1952, he took a break from sharing the gospel in United States to spreading the gospel as a missionary in India. By 1953, De Jong returned to North America, and began to serve the First CRC in Pella, Iowa. Eventually De Jong moved on to First Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
In 1963, he returned to his home town of Grand Rapids to serve Alger Park CRC. While in Grand Rapids, he became a professor at Calvin Seminary. However, by 1970, De Jong went back to Iowa to serve the communities of First, Sioux Center and First Sheldon. He retired from serving the Christian Reformed Churches in 1980 only later to become affiliated with the United Reformed Church in 1982. Rev. De Jong passed away in 2005 from heart failure.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
6.45 cubic ft.
Access Restrictions:
(to be restricted until 01/01/2026 for all but his children)
Acquisition Source:
Gift of P.Y. De Jong
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Addresses, Lectures, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Material],
[Series 2: Papers, 1936-1993],
[
Series 3: Lesson Material],
[
Series 4: Church Polity and Government Material and Unpublished Manuscripts],
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Series 5: Foreign Missions],
[
Series 6: Personal Material],
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All]
- Series 2: Papers --- 1936-1993
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Class papers re: E. Brunner and modern concept of missions --- 1936-1938
- Folder 2: Class papers re: Christian liberty and Josiah Royce --- 1938-1939
- Folder 3: Class paper: The Life and Times of Berkeley --- 1940
- Folder 4: Class paper re: Søren Kierkegaard --- 1941
- Folder 5: Class paper: Old Testament Biblical Theology --- undated
- Folder 6: Class papers re: Old Testament exegesis --- 1938
- Folder 7: Class papers re: pastoral theology --- 1937-1939
- Folder 8: Liturgics class notes --- 1937-1939
- Folder 9: Paper: Philosophy of India --- 1940
- Folder 10: Paper: Calvin and the Duchess of Ferrara --- 1985
- Folder 11
- Item 1: Paper: Genius of Reformed Church polity --- 1967
- Item 2: Paper: A Reformation Without Deep Roots --- 1993
- Folder 12: Paper re: the new hermeneutic --- undated
- Folder 13
- Item 1: Paper: Introduction to Sects and Cults --- undated
- Item 2: Paper: Christ Marches to Victory by the Gospel --- undated
- Item 3: Paper: Needed, a Reformation in Preaching --- 1969
- Folder 14
- Item 1: Paper: Christian Life --- undated
- Item 2: Paper: Highlights of the Christian Faith --- undated
- Folder 15
- Item 1: Paper: Teaching Ministry of the Apostolic Age --- 1939
- Item 2: Paper: The Genius of Reformed Church Polity --- 1967
- Folder 16
- Item 1: Paper: Helps for Elders --- 1977
- Item 2: Paper: Manual for Those Making Profession of Faith --- undated
- Folder 17: Paper re: the history of baptism --- undated
- Folder 18: Paper: The Evangelizer of Evangelist --- undated
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Addresses, Lectures, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Material],
[Series 2: Papers, 1936-1993],
[
Series 3: Lesson Material],
[
Series 4: Church Polity and Government Material and Unpublished Manuscripts],
[
Series 5: Foreign Missions],
[
Series 6: Personal Material],
[
All]
