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Clarence Bouma (November 30, 1891 in

Harlingen, Friesland – August 12, 1962 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a theologian and professor at Calvin Theological Seminary
.

Early life and education

Bouma was born Klaas Bouma in the

Apologetics.[2] He went on to earn his A.M. (1919) from Princeton University,[3] and his Th.D. (1921) from Harvard Divinity School.[1]

Academic career

After briefly serving as a pastor in the Summer Street Christian Reformed Church in

Systematic Theology. In 1935, he became the editor of The Calvin Forum, and continued to serve in that role the rest of his career. Bouma also served for one semester in 1940 as visiting professor at Gordon College and Divinity School. He was a member of the Reformed Ecumenical Synods of 1946 and 1949.[1]

Throughout his tenure, Bouma opposed

liberal and modernist movements in Christianity, and became a key member in the mid-twentieth century development of American evangelicalism. Bouma was influential in the 1942 formation of the National Association of Evangelicals,[4] and in 1949 was elected the first president of the Evangelical Theological Society
.

Health decline and death

The conflict between traditional and progressive theologies escalated in 1951 to the point that Bouma suffered a "nervous breakdown that left him in a psychiatric hospital for the ten remaining years of his life."[5] He died on August 12, 1962, survived at the time by his wife.

Publications

  • Theism and Personalism (1921) Harvard Divinity School (doctoral thesis)
  • A Theological Bibliography (1925) Grand Rapids Printing Company
  • The Word of God and the Reformed Faith Addresses delivered at the 2nd American Calvinistic Conference, editor (1943) Baker Book House[6]
  • Calvinism in Times of Crisis with G. Charles Aalders, Gerrit C. Berkouwer, Stephanus du Toit, and H.G. Stoker, editors (1947) Baker Book House
  • Bouma, Clarence (Jan 1947). "Calvinism in American Theology Today". The Journal of Religion. 27 (1): 34–45.
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  • God-Centered Living: or, Calvinism in Action, a Symposium by Calvinistic Action Committee, introduction by Clarence Bouma (1951) Baker Book House

References

  1. ^ a b c "Memorial: CLARENCE BOUMA, 1891-1962" (PDF). Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society. 6: 69. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-20. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  2. Princeton Seminary
    . 1917.
  3. ^ "Degrees Conferred, 1918-1919". Princeton University Catalogue. Princeton University: 342. 1922.
  4. ISBN 0742507696.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  5. ISBN 0802800092
    .
  6. JSTOR 1198310
    .
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