The Letters of Geerhardus Vos

by Geerhardus Vos

Publisher:

P&R

, 2005

Overview

Geerhardus Vos, a pioneer in biblical theology, continues to influence Bible students today. Widely known for his scholarship on Vos, editor James T. Dennison Jr. here collects, for the first time, all of Vos’s extant letters. Many of these letters were written to such luminaries as Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen. The editor’s notes to each letter assist the reader in understanding references in them.

Key Features

• Has the fullest biographical article on Vos to date.
• Provides extant letters written by Geerhardus Vos from 1883 to 1946.
• Shows the vivid relationship and debate with friends and colleagues.

Praise for the Print Edition

An intimate look into the life of a figure who deserves more attention. Geerhardus Vos linked important sites in trans-Atlantic Calvinism a hundred years ago: from Amsterdam to Princeton to Grand Rapids to Philadelphia, His letters show how he built these networks and what he thought on the important theological questions that agitated them.

—James D. Bratt, professor of history and director, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, Calvin College

Brings a man to life who has been the trait d’ union between the Dutch neocalvinist movement of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck and the American Presbyterian tradition of Benjamin B. Warfield and J. Gresham Machen. These letters are not just about theology, but present Geerhardus Vos in vivid relationship and debate with friends and colleagues. The editor has done a tremendous service for the study of the history of Reformed theology with this rich and hitherto unknown source.

—George Harinck, professor of history, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Product Details

• Title: The Letters of Geerhardus Vos
• Author: Geerhardus Vos
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 274
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Vos, Geerhardus, 1862-1949 › Correspondence; Reformed (Reformed Church) › Correspondence; Theologians › Correspondence
• ISBNs: 9780875521879, 0875521878
• Resource ID: LLS:LTTRSGRHRDS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.letters
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-05T15:18:22Z

About Geerhardus Vos

Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949), a Reformed theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology, he is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology. He earned degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Strasbourg (PhD in Arabic). In 1894 he was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the USA. Before beginning a thirty-nine-year tenure on Princeton’s faculty, he was professor of systematic and exegetical theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.