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Collection Overview

Title: Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Collection

Predominant Dates:1970-2005

ID: COLL/611

Primary Creator: Cornelius Plantinga Jr. (1946-)

Extent: 13.0 Boxes

Arrangement: The collection is arranged similar to Plantinga’s original organization. The folder titles and contents have been preserved as they were received. Folders have been sorted into alphabetical order by archives staff.

Subjects: Bible. New Testament - Study and teaching (Higher), Calvin College, Calvin Theological Seminary, Theology - Study and teaching (Higher)

Languages: English

Abstract

The Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Collections contains compiled thoughts, notes, papers, articles, and sermons on various topics in theology, biblical studies, and modern culture. The writings are by various authors, including some students, but have all been compiled by Plantinga.

Biographical Note

Cornelius (Neal) Plantinga Jr. (b. 1946) is a writer, preacher, and theologian who is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary (2001–2011) and an emeritus senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (2012–2024). His prior roles within the Calvin community include professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary (1979–1996) and dean of the chapel at Calvin College, now University (1996–2001).

Plantinga was ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in North America in 1971 and served as pastor of Webster CRC in Webster, New York, from 1971 through 1975. He has been an active preacher and speaker throughout his career, including appearances at Calvin’s January Series (1993, 1997, 2013) and frequent participation in the Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Calvin Festival of Faith & Writing.

Plantinga earned an AB degree from Calvin College (1967), a BD degree from Calvin Theological Seminary (1971), and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary (1982). He has also been a visiting scholar at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge.

Subject/Index Terms

Bible. New Testament - Study and teaching (Higher)
Calvin College
Calvin Theological Seminary
Theology - Study and teaching (Higher)

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Box 1

Folder 1: Biographical Information
Folder 2: Academic Journey --- 1978-1984
Folder 3: Abortion
Folder 4: Abraham, William
Folder 5: Advent --- 1973-1974
Folder 6: Advent, Christmas --- 1970s
Folder 7: Aesthetics
Folder 8: Agape and Eros
Folder 9: AL --- 1995
Folder 10: Alston, Wallace Jr. --- 1976-1979
Folder 11: Ambition
Folder 12: American Literature
Folder 13: Analogy
Folder 14: Anthropology
Folder 15: Apologetics
Folder 16: Angels
Folder 17: A Chorus --- 1995
Folder 18: Ascension --- 1971-1977
Folder 19: Anthro --- 1978
Folder 20: Atheism

Box 2

Folder 1: Aquinas, Thomas
Folder 2: Atonement
Folder 3: Augustine --- 1995
Folder 4: Baptism --- 1997
Folder 5: Being Reformed --- 2001
Folder 6: Berkhof, Hendrikus
Folder 7: Beyond Doubt --- 2002
Folder 8: Boethuis, Anicius - Is Chaleadonian Christiology Inconsistent?

Box 3

Folder 1: Bracken's Thesis: A Qualified Endorsement
Folder 2: Buddhists
Folder 3: Buetmann
Folder 4: Bullinger - Pioneers of Reformed Theology --- 1998
Folder 5: Calvin, John
Folder 6: Calvin, John - images and themes in Calvin's theology of liturgy --- 1998
Folder 7: Calvinists, Reformed Perspective --- 1993
Folder 8: Cartoons
Folder 9: Character --- 1996
Folder 10: Charges to Ministers
Folder 11: Child Abuse - Georgetown Gatherings newsletter --- 1991
Folder 12: Children
Folder 13: Christian Life
Folder 14: Christian Education
Folder 15: Christianity - History --- 1996
Folder 16: Christology
Folder 17: Church and Kingdom
Folder 18: Colossians Christian Education --- 1971
Folder 19: Communion --- 1967-1994

Box 4

Folder 1: Compassion --- 1998
Folder 2: Compassion Plan
Folder 3: Contemporary Worship
Folder 4: Corruption
Folder 5: Creation --- 1989
Folder 6: Creation, Fall, Redemption
Folder 7: Creeds and Confessions
Folder 8: Deadly Sins
Folder 9: Death --- 1989
Folder 10: Devotion
Folder 11: Dissertation Proposal - "Two Contemporary Theories: The Hodgson - Welch Debate" --- 1978
Folder 12: Doctrine of God - Syllabus --- 1996
Folder 13: Doubt
Folder 14: Easter sermons
Folder 15: Ecumenical Creeds and Confessions --- 1988

Box 5

Folder 1: Edwards - The Nature of Affection
Folder 2: Election and Reproduction
Folder 3: Envy
Folder 4: Ethics
Folder 5: Evangelical Theology Today
Folder 6: Evangelism --- 1992
Folder 7: Evil --- 1998
Folder 8: Faith
Folder 9: Fear --- 1994
Folder 10: Films
Folder 11: Forgiveness
Folder 12: Freedom/Liberty
Folder 13: Fundamentalism
Folder 14: Funerals --- 1996
Folder 15: God and Attributes
Folder 16: God: Images
Folder 17: Grace
Folder 18: Hell
Folder 19: Hermeneutics
Folder 20: Historiography
Folder 21: Home
Folder 22: "Homecoming 2" sermon
Folder 23: Hope
Folder 24: The Hope of Glory
Folder 25: Hospitality --- 1998
Folder 26: Hymns --- 1998
Folder 27: Hypocracy

Box 6

Folder 1: Idolatry
Folder 2: Images of God
Folder 3: Images of God/Nature of Man
Folder 4: Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching --- 2003
Folder 5: Incarnation
Folder 6: Issues in Gender and Grace
Folder 7: Jacobs, Alan - Original Sin
Folder 8: Joy --- 1995
Folder 9: Kuiper, Abraham - Grand Rapids Address
Folder 10: Leibnitz, Godfrey - Foreknowledge, Foreordination, and Freedom
Folder 11: Lent
Folder 12: Lewis, C.S.
Folder 13: Light
Folder 14: Lindbeck, George
Folder 15: Liturgy
Folder 16: Logic
Item 17: Longing
Folder 18: Love
Folder 19: Macmurray, John - Persons in Relation
Folder 20: Marxism --- 1989
Folder 21: McGarth, Alister - Understanding God
Folder 22: Memory
Folder 23: Miracles --- 1978

Box 7

Folder 1: Moltmann, Jergen - Concept of Eschaton
Folder 2: Monograph
Folder 3: Mouw, Richard J.
Folder 4: Music History --- 1966
Folder 5: Musical Journey - GR Symphony Orchestra - Violin --- 1966, 1975
Folder 6: Names
Folder 7: The New Morality
Folder 8: Nicene Creed
Folder 9: Niebuhr, H.R. - The Meaning of Revelation --- 1941
Folder 10: Ninth Commandment
Folder 11: Nonsense
Folder 12: Not the Way It's Supposed to Be --- 1995
Folder 13: Numinous
Folder 14: O'Connor, Flannery - various writings
Folder 15: Oral Comps

Box 8

Folder 1: Pannenberg - Theology and Philosophy of Science
Folder 2: Patience
Folder 3: Philippians
Folder 4: Plantinga, Alvin - essays
Folder 5: Plato - Plato's Anthropology --- 1979
Folder 6: Pluralism
Folder 7: Poetry
Folder 8: Prayers
Folder 9: Preaching Doctrine
Folder 10: Preaching in Lent
Folder 11: "Preaching the Grace of Compassion" --- 2000
Folder 12: Preaching - Various Aspects
Folder 13: Providence
Folder 14: Punishement
Folder 15: Rahner, Karl - The Triune God
Folder 17: Reformation
Folder 18: Repentance
Folder 19: Resurrection
Folder 20: Rutledge, Fleming - Preaching --- 2005
Folder 16: Reading Books

Box 9

Folder 1: Sacraments
Folder 2: Sanctification
Folder 3: Schleiermacher - Introduction to the Christian Faith
Folder 4: Segundo - Modernism
Folder 5: Sehnsucht --- 1998
Folder 6: Sexuality
Folder 7: Shame
Folder 8: Silence
Folder 9: Sin
Folder 10: Sin and Evil
Folder 11: Smedes, Lewis --- 2002
Folder 12: Soteriology --- 1983-1984
Folder 13: Soteriology Masters
Folder 14: Spirituality
Folder 15: Spirituality - Patience
Folder 16: Stob, Henry - Theological Reflections
Folder 17: Summer Seminar --- 2003
Folder 18: Swinburne, Richard - Was Jesus God? --- 2008
Folder 19: Symbol
Folder 20: Synod Interviews --- 2001
Folder 21: Teaching --- 1993
Folder 22: Theological Basis of Education at Calvin College
Folder 23: Theology
Folder 24: Theology, Contemporary --- 1989
Folder 25: Theology and Literature --- 1970
Folder 26: I Thessalonians - Prayer
Folder 27: Tillich - Doctrine of God

Box 10

Folder 1: I Timothy - Mystery
Folder 2: II Timothy - Eternity --- 1972
Folder 3: Trends in Christology
Folder 4: Trinity
Folder 5: Trinity and Kenosis
Folder 6: Trinity - Theology --- 1996
Folder 7: "Understanding the Holy Trinity in Preparation for Prayer"
Folder 8: Universalism
Folder 9: Universalistic Texts
Folder 10: Vatican II Liturgy
Folder 11: Various Thoughts on Preaching by a Variety of Theologians
Folder 12: Wealth: (see also, Poverty)
Folder 13: Wedding Meditations
Folder 14: Willard, Dallas - Renovation of the Heart --- 2007
Folder 15: Wisdom
Folder 16: Wonder
Folder 17: Worship
Folder 18: Writing

Box 11

Folder 1: Yale University - English Class Essays and Tests
Folder 2: Class Notes - Yale
Folder 3: Class Notes - Princeton
Folder 4: Class Notes - Princeton
Folder 5: Class Notes - Princeton
Folder 6: Class Notes - Calvin
Folder 7: Class Notes - Calvin (Reformed Theology)
Folder 8: Class Notes - Calvin Seminary

Box 12

Folder 1: Class Notes
Folder 2: Class Notes
Folder 3: Notes on Various Topics
Folder 4: Syllabus - English 315 (W. Dale Brown)
Folder 5: Kuiper Seminar - Higher Christian Education
Folder 6: Course - Creeds and Confessions

Box 13

Folder 1: Course 201B - Basic Christian Theology
Folder 2: Course 426 - Doctrine of Salvation
Folder 3: Course 490 - Recent Trends in the Theology of the Trinity and of Christ
Folder 4: Course 541 - The Apologetical Theology of C.S. Lewis

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