Geerhardus Vos

John Murray said of him, "Dr. Vos is, in my judgment, the most penetrating exegete it has been my privilege to know, and I believe, the most incisive exegete that has appeared in the English-speaking world in this century." The uniqueness of Vos's emphasis on the centrality of the covenantal work of Jesus Christ in history and our possession of that work through His mediation draws us back time and again to his powerful and passionate sermons. Translated to the realm of glory itself through the proclamation of the accomplished work of our covenant Lord, and by the gift of His Spirit, we partake of unparalleled communion with God and possess Him as our highest treasure presently in Christ as our covenant God. Short of the consummation we have made His glory and joy in His people our chief end in this pilgrim life.

These valuable pages contain the ripe fruit of the 39 years which Vos spent teaching Biblical Theology at Princeton, until his retirement in 1932.The aim of this book is no less than to provide an account of the unfolding of the mind of God in history, through the successive agents of his special revelation. Vos handles this under three main divisions: the Mosaic epoch of revelation, the prophetic epoch of revelation, and the New Testament. Such an historical approach is not meant to supplant the work of the systematic theologian; nevertheless, the Christian gospel is inextricably bound up with history, and the biblical theologian thus seeks to highlight the uniqueness of each biblical document in that succession. The rich variety of Scripture is discovered anew as the progressive development of biblical themes is explicated.

The foreword describes this book as “a classic of unprecedented insight into the structure of Paul’s theology.” Vos’s basic thesis is that to unfold Paul’s eschatology is to set forth his theology as a whole, not just his teaching on Christ’s return. The author discusses the structure of Paul’s eschatology, the interaction between his eschatology and his soteriology, and the religious and ethical motivation of his eschatology. This volume also discusses the coming of the Lord and its precursors, the man of sin, the resurrection, chiliasm, the judgment, and the eternal state. The Pauline Eschatology, originally published in 1930, includes a bibliography and an appendix on the eschatology of the Psalter.

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In this book, Dr. Vos reflects on the Epistle to the Hebrews and its theological themes. In chapter 1, Vos explains why the outstanding feature of the Epistle is its connection with the Old Testament and why the Old Testament is prominent in it. In Chapter 2, Vos discusses the Epistle’s conception of the “Diatheke” – the new covenant, new testament, new organization of relationship between God and humanity – and shows how the Epistle’s conception affects the whole of Christianity. In chapter 3, Vos points out that the Epistle presents its own philosophy of redemption and revelation and that it presents a significant, and corrective teaching on the subject of Christian eschatology. In the remaining portion of this chapter the author analyzes the Typology of the Epistle, the Problem of the Inferiority of the Old Testament from the religious point of view, and teh Epistle’s doctrine of revelation. In chapter 4, Vos lays out the Epistle’s teaching of the Priesthood of Christ and in Chapter 5 he concludes with a discussion of the better sacrifice: the sacrifice of the new covenant. This last chapter also contains helpful notes on the rigual terminology employed by the writer of the epistle. Editor: James T. Dennison Jr. (M.Div., Th.M., Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) is academic dean and professor of church history and biblical theology at Northwest Theological Seminary, Lynnwood, Washington. he is the editor of the English translation of Turretin's three- volume Institutes and author of The Market-Day of the Soul; The Puritan Doctrine of the Sabbath in England, 1532- 1700, as well as numerous scholarly articles.

Until recently, Reformed Dogmatics was only available in its original Dutch. But now you too can access Geerhardus Vos' monumental work of systematic theology. This brand-new English translation was edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.In Volume One, Theology Proper, Vos discusses:The doctrine of GodThe TrinityGod's actsCreationPredestinationProvidenceAnd more

"To what, then, does one attribute the fact that from the beginning this concept of the covenant appears so much in the foreground of Reformed theology? There must be something in its starting-point by which it feels itself drawn to this idea. Let us now in succession take a look at (1) the covenant of works, (2) the covenant of redemption, and (3) the covenant of grace."Doctrine of the Covenant is a brief essay in which Geerhardus Vos details the historical development of covenant theology, and provides a positive case for the Reformed view. This essay provides an accessible, short order explanation of the covenants, giving readers a key biblical hermeneutic for understanding the breadth of biblical history, and its cohesion via the covenants.This electronic edition features an active table of contents.Doctrine of the Covenant is part of The Fig Classic Series on Modern Theology. To view more books in our catalog, visit us at fig-books.com.

Like books, people can become classics. Great in their day, but richer and more fulfilling with time. Not yet a classic, Vos s never-before-published "Reformed Dogmatics" is more like a lost Shakespeare play recently discovered. Michael HortonUntil recently, "Reformed Dogmatics" was only available in its original Dutch. But now you too can access Geerhardus Vos monumental work of systematic theology. This brand-new English translation was edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.In "Volume Two, Anthropology," Vos discusses: Humanity Sin The covenant of grace The body and the soul God s covenants And more "

Like books, people can become 'classics.' Great in their day, but richer and more fulfilling with time. Not yet a classic, Vos's never-before-published Reformed Dogmatics is more like a lost Shakespeare play recently discovered. --Michael HortonUntil recently, Reformed Dogmatics was only available in its original Dutch. But now you too can access Geerhardus Vos' monumental work of systematic theology. This brand-new English translation was edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.In Volume Three, Christology , Vos The person of ChristChrist's two naturesThe incarnationThe work of ChristChrist's death and resurrectionThe nature of Christ' sacrificeChrist's officesAnd more

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 proof texts, the Bible was, for Vos, an organism--its rich diversity giving unanimous 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's writings.

In this previously unpublished material, a pioneer in Reformed biblical theology examines the hopes, expectations, and understanding of Old Testament saints regarding the future. Compiled from several manuscripts relating to Geerhardus Vos's course on Old Testament eschatology, this volume weaves together the most complete text of his study on the subject. Vos addresses a wide range of questions surrounding both individual and collective eschatology from key passages throughout the Old Testament. Whether he is discussing the intermediate state or the meaning of Sheol, Messianic expectations or the Day of the Lord, Vos's supernaturalism contrasts with the hopelessness of naturalistic views.

Biblical and natural theology may not appear to mix, but the two actually do belong together. Vos’s reputation as the father of contemporary biblical theology is not negated by his earlier teaching of natural theology, appearing here for the first time in English. Gathered from source material found in the Heritage Hall archives at Calvin Seminary and University, these are the earliest notes of Vos’s lectures on natural theology. They demonstrate his understanding of Reformed orthodox approaches as well as extensive knowledge of contemporary developments in the subject. The present volume could be regarded as, and may have formed, a partial introduction to Reformed Dogmatics since it lacks a prolegomenon and because Natural Theology discusses religion and the proofs for the existence of God.

"Like books, people can become 'classics.' Great in their day, but richer and more fulfilling with time. Not yet a classic, Vos's never-before-published Reformed Dogmatics is more like a lost Shakespeare play recently discovered."--Michael HortonUntil recently, Reformed Dogmatics was only available in its original Dutch. But now you too can access Geerhardus Vos' monumental work of systematic theology. This brand-new English translation was edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.In Volume Ecclesiology, The Means of Grace, Eschatology , Vos --The essence and organization of the church--The Word of God, baptism, and the Lord's Supper as means of grace--The doctrine of last things in both individual and general terms

Overview: Never before available in English, Geerhardus Vos' Reformed Dogmatics was originally published in Dutch in 1896. Now, you can access the early theological thought of one of the premier Reformed thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Designed for training seminary students, Reformed Dogmatics spans the eight classical loci of systematic theology, presented here in five handsome hardback volumes. Edited by biblical theologian and Vos expert, Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.Volume four, Soteriology, builds on Vos's examination of the work of Christ. He discusses the nature of salvation, the evidence of salvation in the Holy Spirit and the church, and the order of salvation (ordo salutis)

Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949) has been called "the father of Reformed biblical theology." He was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to the United States in 1881. 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 his thirty-nine-year tenure on Princeton's faculty, he was professor of systematic and exegetical theology at Calvin for five years. Among his writings are Biblical Theology and The Pauline Eschatology .A pioneer in biblical theology, Geerhardus Vos continues to influence Bible students today. Vos expert James T. Dennison Jr. here collects, for the first time, all of Vos's extant letters, many of them to Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen.James T. Dennison Jr. - More than eighty letters written by Geerhardus Vos from 1883 to 1946- The fullest biographical article on Vos to date- A thorough bibliography of Vos's writings- Samples of Vos's poetry

"Our Lord did not come to found a new religion, but simply to usher in the fulfillment of something promised long beforehand."The Kingdom of God requires an intermediate level of theological and Greek language knowledge. Vos does not disappoint in this insightful treatise. In this text, he blends his signature biblical theological learning with the historical-critical issues of his day, making this a rare and delightful essay to read.The Kingdom of God is part of The Fig Classic Series on Modern Theology. To view more books in our catalog, visit us at fig-books.com.

Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics represents the early theological thought of one of the premier Reformed thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally self-published in five volumes in 1896 under the title Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, this important work of Reformed theology has never before been available to an English audience.Geerhardus Vos is perhaps best known to English speakers for his books Pauline Eschatology, published in 1930, and Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments, published in 1948. Vos’s strong grounding in biblical scholarship and biblical theology gives his Reformed Dogmatics a unique, fresh biblical perspective. Though this five-volume set is systematic in nature, Geerhardus Vos brings the skills and acumen of a biblical theologian to the task.This new edition incorporates the English translations of each of the earlier volumes into a single volume for students of Reformed theology.

Did Jesus claim to be the Messiah? What Vos discerned in his day applies equally to ours: "a certain class of writers" regards with "disfavor . . . the Messianic element in the Gospels." His comprehensive, detailed refutation of such writers, first released in 1926, has helped evangelicals answer these questions affirmatively for more than ninety years.

There are certain editions of the New Testament which by way of appendix contain the Psalter, an arrangement obviously intended to serve the convenience of devotion. It has, however, the curious result of bringing the Apocalypse and the Psalms into immediate proximity. On first thought it might seem that scarcely two more diverse things could be put together. The storm-ridden landscape of the Apocalypse has little enough in common with the green pastures and still waters of which the Psalmist sings. For us the Psalter largely ministers to the needs of the devotional life withdrawn into its privacy with God. Such a life is not usually promotive of the tone and temper characteristic of the eschatological reaction. This will explain why the ear of both reader and interpreter has so often remained closed to strains of a quite different nature in this favorite book.It requires something more strenuous than the even tenor of our devotional life to shake us out of this habit and force us to take a look at the Psalter’s second face. It has happened more than once in the history of the Church, that some great conflict has carried the use of the Psalms out from the prayer-closet into the open places of a tumultuous world. The period of the Reformation affords a striking example of this. We ourselves, who are just emerging from a time of great world-upheaval, have perhaps discovered, that the Psalter adapted itself to still other situations than we were accustomed to imagine. To be sure, these last tremendous years have not detracted in the least from its familiar usefulness as an instrument of devotion. But we have also found that voices from the Psalter accompanied us, when forced into the open to face the world-tempest, and that they sprang to our lips on occasions when otherwise we should have had to remain dumb in the presence of God’s judgments. This experience sufficiently proves that there is material in the Psalms which it requires the large impact of history to bring to our consciousness in its full significance. It goes without saying that what can be prayed and sung now in theatro mundi was never meant for exclusive use in the oratory of the pious soul. This other aspect of the Psalter has not been produced by liturgical accommodation; it was in its very origin a part of the life and prayer and song of the writers themselves.

A Collection of poems from one of Princeton's most historic professors. Stranger, stranger, on some far shore Hast thou a city? Is there a door That knows thy footfall, wandering one? EURIPIDES Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. HEB. 13:14

Like other parts of New Testament Theology, the interpretation of Paul’s teaching has strongly felt the influence of the emphasis placed in recent discussion upon the eschatological outlook of the early Church. It is said that, since the person of the Messiah and his work form already in the Old Testament part of an essentially eschatological program, and since the acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah was the distinctive feature of the new faith, therefore the whole perspective in which the content of this religion presented itself to the first Christians had of necessity to assume eschatological form. They could not help correlating more closely than we are accustomed to do their present beliefs and experiences with the final, eternal issues of the history of redemption, and interpreting the former in the light of the latter. To an extent we can hardly appreciate theoretically, far less reproduce in our mode of feeling, they were conscious of standing at the turning point of the ages, of living in the very presence of the world to come.It is true that contemporary Judaism had not consistently kept the Messiah and His work in that central place of the eschatological stage which the Old Testament assigned to Him. From within the coming aeon He had been removed to its threshold, and His kingdom relegated to the rank of a mere provisional episode in the great drama of the end. This, however, was due to the inherent dualism of the Jewish eschatology. Because it was felt that the earthly and the heavenly, the sensual and the spiritual, the temporal and the eternal, the political and the transcendental, the national and the cosmical would not combine, and yet neither of the two could safely be abandoned, the incongruous elements were mechanically forced together in the scheme of two successive kingdoms, during the former of which the urgent claims of Israel pertaining to this world would receive at least a transient satisfaction, whilst in the latter the higher and broader hopes would find their everlasting embodiment. Under this scheme the Messiah and His work inevitably became associated with the provisional temporal order of affairs and ceased to be of significance for the final state.

Geerhardus Johannes Vos (March 14, 1862 – August 13, 1949) was a Dutch-American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology.Vos was born to a Dutch Reformed pastor in Heerenveen in Friesland in the Netherlands. In 1881, when Geerhardus was 19 years old, his father, Jan Vos, accepted a call to be the pastor of the Christian Reformed Church congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.In September, 1881, Geerhardus Vos began his education at the Christian Reformed Church's Theological School, which is today's Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, and his talents were soon to be found by the school for he earned a higher degree in single year. During this period, Vos was appointed by the Curatorium to be the instructional assistant of Gerrit Egbert Boer, the teacher of the school as well as the president of the assembly. During the second year, Vos was paid as a lecturer alongside his studies.Two years later, in 1883, Vos was enrolled into the Princeton Theological Seminary, and he had already mastered German, Dutch, Latin, French, English, Greek and Hebrew by that time. Upon his request, he entered Princeton as a second year student. His outstanding senior paper, titled "The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes" was awarded the Hebrew fellowship prize.Vos carried on his further studies in the University of Berlin in Germany in 1886. In April, He received Abraham Kuyper's invitation to teach in the Free University of Amsterdam as the professor of Old Testament, however he turned that down partly because of his father's objection. Almost at the same period, the Christian Reformed Church nominated him as the next professor in Grand Rapids. Herman Bavinck also arrived at Berlin to meet Vos at the end of July, 1886, he encouraged Vos to study in the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strassburg when Vos was thinking of transferring to a new school. At last, Vos completed his studies and receiving his doctorate in Arabic Studies from the Philosophy Faculty of Strassburg University in 1888.Career period

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UNA DE LAS OBRAS MÁS IMPORTANTES DE LA TEOLOGÍA BÍBLICA DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOSEn el libro Teología bíblica , el objetivo de Geerhardus Vos es nada menos que dar cuenta del despliegue del plan redentor de Dios a través de la historia, y de los sucesivos agentes de su revelación especial. Vos lo aborda bajo tres divisiones la época mosaica de la revelación, la época profética de la revelación y el Nuevo Testamento.Este enfoque histórico no pretende suplantar la labor de la teología sistemática; sin embargo, el evangelio cristiano está inextricablemente ligado a la historia, por lo que el teólogo bíblico trata de destacar la singularidad de cada documento bíblico en esa sucesión. La rica variedad de las Escrituras se descubre de forma renovada mediante este método y el lector adquiere una mayor apreciación de la elevada perspectiva de la revelación completa que tenemos el privilegio de tener hoy.Al leer estas páginas, fruto de 39 años de intenso estudio y enseñanza de la teología bíblica en Princeton, el lector comprobará la afirmación de John Murray quien llamo a Geerhardus Vos fue el exégeta más perspicaz del siglo XX del mundo de habla inglesa.Características principales- Abarca tanto el Antiguo como el Nuevo Testamento.- Expone la concepción de Vos sobre la unidad y diversidad de la Biblia.- Incluye un análisis exegético y una perspectiva evangélica de la teología bíblica.Vos es significativo porque él es el padre de la teología bíblica reformada o, como él prefiere describir la disciplina, «Historia de la revelación especial». Su Teología bíblica es el tratamiento resumido más instructivo y único sobre los temas relacionados con el método bíblico-teológico.Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.Profesor emérito de Teología bíblica y sistemática en el Seminario Teológico de Westminster en FiladelfiaConsidero que Geerhardus Vos es el exégeta más perspicaz que he tenido el privilegio de conocer, y creo sin duda que es el exégeta más incisivo que ha aparecido en el mundo angloparlante en el siglo XX. Hasta la fecha estamos convencidos de que nadie jamás ha igualado al Dr. Vos en el área del estudio bíblico. Por lo tanto, este volumen de teología bíblica es único.John MurrayProfesor de Teología sistemática en el Seminario Teológico de WestminsterAunque la vocación primaria de Vos era la de profesor de teología, sus escritos se caracterizan por una ortodoxia evidente y una fe devota que emite un espíritu de reverencia y adoración en todas sus publicaciones y explican por qué siguen siendo muy apreciados entre los lectores interesados en un enfoque reformado de la teología bíblica.James M. GarretsonHa sido pastor de congregaciones en la Iglesia Presbiteriana Ortodoxa y la Iglesia Presbiteriana en USA. Ha enseñado en el Seminario Teológico de Knox y es autor de múltiples libros.Sobre el Geerhardus J. Vos (1862-1949) fue un teólogo holandés-estadounidense y uno de los representantes más destacados de la Teología de Princeton. Ha sido llamado con razón el padre de la Teología Bíblica. Es autor de muchos libros, y ejerció una tremenda influencia en el desarrollo de la disciplina de la teología bíblica en el siglo XX. Entre sus obras más importantes están, La enseñanza de Jesús sobre el Reino de Dios y La escatología paulina.

"The love of God occupies a more prominent place than any other divine attribute in present-day Christian consciousness. Obviously the causes of this prominence must not be sought in the sphere of doctrinal thinking, but in certain practical tendencies of our modern religious life. Not for the sake of its theological significance as a constituent factor in the divine character, but for the sake of its bearing upon human conduct and destiny has the love of God been exalted to this position of supremacy among its sister attributes. It were idle to pretend that the scientific theology of today is more successful than the theology of previous ages in deducing from the one principle of love everything that Scripture and experience teach concerning God’s method of dealing with His creatures. On the contrary, to the thinking mind the impossibility of doing this has perhaps never stood out more clearly than it stands out at present, in the light of what biblical research has shown to be the truth of revelation, and of what modern science has shown to be the reality of life. And yet, in the very face of this impossibility, there has developed a widespread demand that God’s love, and nothing but His love, shall be made the keynote of every message Christianity has to bring to the world."

There is no song that travelleth The highway between Life and Death, But stops twixt night-fall and to-morrow At the old inns of Joy and Sorrow. THE following collection of verses consists of material not before published in English. As will be readily perceived, a few of the pieces are (a free) translation into English from what had appeared before in the little bundle “Spiegel der Natuur.” The majority, however, are English-born. Perhaps it is not out of place to add, that the small appendix added to “Spiegel der Natuur” under the title “Lyra Anglica” has not been incorporated in the present volume.

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Geerhardus Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics represents the early theological thought of one of the premier Reformed thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally self-published in five volumes in 1896 under the title Gereformeerde Dogmatiek (also known as Dogmatiek ), this important piece of Reformed theology has never been available to an English audience. Geerhardus Vos is perhaps best known to English speakers for his books Pauline Eschatology , published in 1930, and Biblical Old and New Testaments , published in 1948. Vos’ strong grounding in biblical scholarship and biblical theology makes his Reformed Dogmatics unique, bringing a fresh biblical perspective. Though this five-volume set is systematic in nature, Geerhardus Vos brings the skills and acumen of a biblical theologian to the task.