COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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Documents the ministerial career of Marvin C. Baarman (1919-1991), in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The material focuses primarily on the administrative dimensions of his career in the parish ministry and later as he worked for the denomination’s Home Missions Board. Among other topics, it details the denomination’s evangelism during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the denomination’s commission on race formed in 1968.

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Details the latter part of Henry Baker’s ministerial career, when his work focused on home missions. Includes biographical data, sermons, essays, meditations, and reports. Particularly rich in detailing the evangelism and home mission efforts in the Christian Reformed Church in North America during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

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Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary and minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes class notes and lectures.

Abstract Minister of the Afscheiding churches in the Netherlands and professor of systematic theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The collection includes a banquet speech in Bavinck’s honor; a pamphlet entitled Mijne Reis Naar America, edited and annotated by G.Harinck; a bound manuscript, i.e., an abbreviated anonymous version of "Gereformeerde Dogmatiek" by Herman Bavinck, with separate [7] page notes entitled "De Wederkomst van Christus"/Bavin[c]k [iv]-422, and an index, [4] pages at the...

Scope and Contents Minister of the Christian Reformed Church; and professor of religion and theology at Calvin College. The collection includes minutes and materials from various committees of the Christian Reformed Church and Calvin College; chapters in books, booklets, addresses, and reflections; papers detailing a wide range of social, religious, doctrinal and controversial issues; speeches; sermons; college class notes; and drafts, outlines, and supporting materials for the book ...

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Engineer, land surveyor, and architect in Prospect Park, Clifton, and Paterson, New Jersey. The collection includes business cards, certification, wedding invitation, biography, genealogy, church presentations, a paper on the American government, and correspondence.

Scope and Contents Details the political career of Paul B. Henry from his participation in the presidential campaign of John Anderson through Henry’s service in the Michigan legislature concluding with his service in the United States House of Representatives.  Includes material on constituent polling in the 5th Michigan Congressional District, fundraising, daily scheduling, general, constituent and White House correspondence, speeches, research files, and financial files. Henry served on three Congressional...