Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
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Overview
Emphasizing the historical character of biblical revelation, Vos was able to clarify the pervasive meaning of Scripture by bringing into view its basic structure. Far from an array of isolated prooftexts, the Bible was, for Vos, an organism—its rich diversity giving unaminous expression of its redemptive message. In Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation, the shorter writings of this famed theologian have been gathered under one cover. The reader will discover here numerous major biblical and theological studies, selected addresses, and book reviews, as well as a 13-page bibliography of Vos’ writings.
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- Gathers together some of Geerhardus J. Vos’ hard-to-find essays
- Offers overview of the Bible’s basic structure
- Contains keen insights into modern biblical studies
Top Highlights
“Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.” (Page 15)
“The second point to be emphasized in our treatment of Biblical Theology is that the historical character of the truth is not in any way antithetical to, but throughout subordinated to, its revealed character. Scriptural truth is not absolute, notwithstanding its historic setting; but the historic setting has been employed by God for the very purpose of revealing the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” (Page 19)
“We propose in the following pages to investigate to what extent Paul’s doctrine of the Holy Spirit shows interdependence with his eschatology.” (Page 94)
“The Westminster Confession is the first Reformed confession in which the doctrine of the covenant is not merely brought in from the side, but is placed in the foreground and has been able to permeate at almost every point.” (Page 239)
“In NT eschatological teaching a general development in a well-defined direction is traceable. The starting-point is the historico-dramatic conception of the two successive ages.” (Page 28)
An important publishing venture. . . for it makes available a large number of writings of a notable theologian which had previously been difficult to obtain. . . especially our ministers, but also all those who are interested in theology, ought to purchase this book.
—H. Hanko, Standard Bearer
There are great riches in this volume for the student of theology. All who are convinced of the importance of biblical theology and thorough-going scholarship will prize this collection.
—Evangelical Presbyterian
Dr. Gaffin has made valuable articles available to people who might never have tackled one of Vos’ larger works. . . . the book belongs in theological libraries, but it might well be given to young ministers beginning their libraries, as well as general readers interested in the Reformed faith.
—Christian Observer
- Title: Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
- Authors: Geerhardus Vos, Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2001
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 571
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Reformed Church › Doctrines; Theology, doctrinal
- Resource ID: LLS:RDMPTVHSTRYBIBINTVOS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:21:32Z
Geerhardus J. Vos (1862–1949) was a Dutch-American theologian. He was the first alumnus of Calvin College (then Theological School) to earn a doctoral degree. Vos studied Old Testament at Princeton Seminary and graduated with honors. He then went on to do doctoral work in Semitics at the University of Berlin for one year, followed by two years at the University of Strasburg. He returned to teach at Calvin in 1888, but accepted an invitation to hold Princeton’s new chair of biblical theology in 1892. He held the chair until his retirement in 1932. During his time at Princeton, he taught some of the great Reformed minds of the twentieth century, including John Gresham Machen and Ned Bernard Stonehouse. Vos was also an essential catalyst in the establishment of Biblical Theology as a discipline. He passed away in 1949. Vos’ thinking and scholarship in theology has influenced Cornelius Van Til, John Murray, Richard B. Gaffin Jr., and Herman Ridderbos.
Richard B. Gaffin Jr. is Charles Krahe Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 1965. An ordained teaching elder of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, he is also the editor of the first-ever English translation of Geerhardus Vos’ Gereformeerde Dogmatiek (Reformed Dogmatics), sold only by Logos Bible Software.
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