Clarence Bouma (November 30, 1891 in Harlingen, Friesland – August 12, 1962 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a theologian and professor at Calvin Theological Seminary.
[1] After briefly serving as a pastor in the Summer Street Christian Reformed Church in Passaic, New Jersey, Bouma joined the faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary in 1924.
Bouma also served for one semester in 1940 as visiting professor at Gordon College and Divinity School.
[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.
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.