Geerhardus Vos

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Geerhardus Vos was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian renowned as a pioneer of biblical theology and a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary.


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instanceOf Dutch-American
Reformed theologian
biblical theologian
person
birthCountry Netherlands
birthDate 1862-03-14
birthPlace Heerenveen
citizenship United States of America
deathCountry United States of America
deathDate 1949-08-13
deathPlace Grand Rapids, Michigan
denomination Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
educatedAt Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary
University of Strassburg
employer Princeton Theological Seminary
familyName Vos
fieldOfWork New Testament theology
Old Testament theology
Reformed theology
biblical theology
genre theological literature
givenName Geerhardus
influenced Cornelius Van Til
John Murray
Meredith G. Kline
Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
influencedBy Abraham Kuyper
Herman Bavinck
knownFor development of redemptive-historical interpretation of Scripture
pioneering biblical theology in the Reformed tradition
languageSpoken Dutch
English
movedTo United States of America
movement Old Princeton theology
name Geerhardus Vos
nationality American
Dutch
notableWork Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments
Reformed Dogmatics
The Pauline Eschatology
The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church
occupation seminary professor
theologian
positionHeld Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary
religiousAffiliation Presbyterian
religiousTradition Reformed
spouse Catherine Smith


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