Promise and Deliverance: Christ's Ministry and Death, Vol. 3
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Overview
“De Graaf’s renewed insight into Biblical revelation is the unique perspective undergirding his treatment of all the Bible stories. It makes his book a unique presentation of God’s revelation of Himself in the covenant and keeps his interpretation of the stories from degenerating into mere moralizing.
De Graaf’s theocentric preaching, which witnessed to God’s sovereignty over the entire life of His people, gripped the hearts of his hearers in his day. The same emphasis, as it comes through in Promise and Deliverance, should be a matter of paramount interest and concern today to evangelicals who are manifesting a growing social awareness and seeking more and more points of contact between Christian beliefs and daily life.”
-Prof. H. Evan Runner, Calvin College
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- Offers a presentation of God’s revelation of Himself in the covenant
- Outlines the Bible’s narrative as a unfolding story of God’s redemptive work
- Serves as a popular guide to Biblical interpretation through a redemptive-historical perspective shaped by Neo-Calvinist thought
- Matthew: Christ’s coming into the world
- Matthew: The kingdom
- Matthew: King and people
- Matthew: The road to power
- Mark: The king appears
- Mark: Who is this man?
- Mark: The growing conflict
- Mark: His departure at Jerusalem
- Luke: The coming of the holy one
- Luke: The merciful high priest
- Luke: The disclosure of life’s need
- Luke: The lamb that was slain
- Title: Promise & Deliverance: Christ’s Ministry and Death, Vol 3
- Author: Simon Gerrit De Graaf
- Publisher: Paideia Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 478
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780888153067, 0888153066
- Resource ID: LLS:PRMSDLVRNCMNDTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-19T19:22:55Z
Simon Gerrit De Graaf (23 May 1889 – 22 December 1955), known as S. G. De Graaf, was a Dutch Reformed minister and theologian.
De Graaf was a minister of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in Amsterdam. Cornelis Veenhof suggests that he “exercised a deeper influence than any one of the Amsterdam professors of theology.” De Graaf was associated with Klaas Schilder but did not join him in the formation of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated).
De Graaf is best known for his four volume work, Verbondsgeschiedenis, translated into English as Promise and Deliverance by H. Evan Runner. Al Wolters calls it a “popular guide to reading the Bible in the redemptive-historical way that had been developed or rediscovered in neocalvinism.” Sidney Greidanus notes that De Graaf “advocated more emphasis on the covenant both in interpreting and preaching the Word,” and suggests that his name is “almost synonymous with the renewed emphasis on the covenant”.