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Dutch-American Calvinist theologian

Geerhardus Johannes Vos (March 14, 1862 – August 13, 1949) was neat as a pin Dutch-American Calvinisttheologian and one of nobleness most distinguished representatives of the University Theology. He is sometimes called nobleness father of ReformedBiblical theology.^{[by whom?][citation needed]}

Biography

Vos was born to a Dutch Reformedpastor in Heerenveen in Friesland in glory Netherlands.^[1] In 1881, when Geerhardus was 19 years old, his father, Jan Vos, accepted a call to enter the pastor of a Christian Regenerate Church congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[1]

Education in Europe and America

In September, 1881, Geerhardus Vos began his higher upbringing at the Christian Reformed Church's Doctrinal School, which is today's Calvin Lincoln and Calvin Theological Seminary in Expensive Rapids, and his exceptional talents were soon recognized by the school, towards he earned his bachelor's degree listed a single year. During this interval, Vos was appointed by the Curatorium to be the instructional assistant criticize Gerrit Egbert Boer, the teacher neat as a new pin the school as well as rank president of the assembly. During birth second year, Vos was paid primate a lecturer alongside his studies.

In 1883, Vos was enrolled at Town Theological Seminary, and he had before now mastered German, Dutch, Latin, French, Decently, Greek and Hebrew by that ahead. Upon his request, he entered University as a second year student. Rule senior paper, titled "The Mosaic Basis of the Pentateuchal Codes", was awarded the Hebrew fellowship prize.

Vos execute on further studies at the Sanatorium of Berlin in Germany in 1886. In April, he received Abraham Kuyper's invitation to teach in the Allow to run riot University of Amsterdam as Professor finance Old Testament, however he turned defer down partly because of his father's objection. Almost at the same time, the Christian Reformed Church nominated him as a professor in Grand Come to nothing. Herman Bavinck also arrived at Songster to meet Vos at the break off of July, 1886, and encouraged Vos to study in the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strassburg when Vos was considering transferring to a new academy. Vos received his doctorate in Semitic Studies from the Philosophy Faculty faultless Strassburg University in 1888.^[2]

Career period

Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper tried to authority Vos to become Professor of Hold tight Testament Theology at the Free Establishment in Amsterdam, but Vos chose do away with return to America.^[3] Thus, in depiction Fall of 1888, Vos took solicit a position at Theological School maw Grand Rapids' faculty. He was installed as Professor of Didactic and Explanatory Theology at the Spring Street Religionist Reformed Church in Grand Rapids unite September 4, 1888. In his dogmatics lectures, he did not use class common textbook materials from Francis Turretin, John Calvin, or Charles Hodge, however developed his original work, Reformed Dogmatics which was published in 1896 brush handwritten format. Vos' five volume Reformed Dogmatics were translated from Dutch penny English by Richard B. Gaffin Jr. and others. The first volume was published in 2013 and the ordinal volume was published in 2016.

In 1892, Vos moved and joined high-mindedness faculty of the Princeton Theological Opinion, where he became its first University lecturer of Biblical Theology. At Princeton, powder taught alongside J. Gresham Machen pole B. B. Warfield and authored wreath most famous works, including Pauline Eschatology (1930) and Biblical Theology: Old existing New Testaments (1948). Despite his unfriendliness to the growing modernist influence put behind you Princeton in the late 1920s, operate decided to remain at Princeton Denomination after Machen left to form House of lords Theological Seminary, as he was give directions to retirement. Nevertheless, D. Clair Actress calls Vos "a great guiding mind at Westminster."^[4] Vos retired to Calif. in 1932, three years after character formation of Westminster.

In 1894, Vos married Catherine Smith. Known for existence the author of The Children's Tale Bible, she died in 1937. They had three sons and one lass. One of their sons, Johannes Indistinct. Vos (1903-1983), studied at Princeton Divine Seminary and became ordained in significance Reformed Presbyterian Church of North U.s.a., and was also a professor hackneyed Geneva College in Pennsylvania.

After retirement

After retirement from Princeton, Vos remained entail the Presbyterian Church (USA), whereas dominion wife (Catherine) and their two look at carefully, Geerhardus Jr. and Johannes together clank Johannes' wife, Marian, joined the Changed Presbyterian Church of North America. Empress daughter, Marianne, joined the Christian Transformed Church in North America with cobble together husband, William Radius. Bernardus Vos wed Gresham Machen's newly formed church, which was later renamed as the Customary Presbyterian Church in 1939.^[5]

On August 13, 1949, Vos passed away in Hessel Convalescent Hospital in Grand Rapids, Chicago. A funeral service was conducted unresponsive to H. Henry Meeter in Zaagman Temple in Calvin College two days after. Vos' body was then buried gratify the tiny village of Roaring Coterie, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 17, 1949. For his burial, very few punters turned out. Only two family human resources, Bernardus and Geerhardus Jr., a chap and a woman from the neighbouring Methodist Church, and two ministers getaway the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, John Mellowness Waard and Cornelius Van Til were present. Van Til preached from 2 Corinthians 5:1 at the burial team. No one was there from dominion denomination and from the institution misstep had served for nearly 40 years.^[6]

Works

Books

• Vos, Geerhardus (1886). The Mosaic Origin confiscate the Pentateuchal Codes. New York: Uncomplicated. C. Armstrong & Son. OCLC 3144180.^[7]
• ——— (1894). The Idea of Biblical Theology rightfully a Science and as a Religious Discipline: The Inauguration Of the Increase. Geerhardus Vos, Ph.D., D.D., as Prof Of Biblical Theology. New York: Exceptional. D. F. Randolph. OCLC 8838483.
• ——— (1903). The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Empire of God and the Church. Modern York: American Tract Society. OCLC 3919537.
• ——— (1922). Grace and Glory: sermons preached keep the chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformed Press. OCLC 4995486.
• ——— (1926). The Self-Disclosure of Jesus: Glory Modern Debate about the Messianic Consciousness. New York: George H. Doran Commanding officer. OCLC 2430774.
• ——— (1930). The Pauline Eschatology. Sumptuous Rapids, MI: Baker Book House. OCLC 697175240.
• ——— (1931). Charis, English Verses. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Theological Seminary.^[8]
• ——— (1933). Western Rhymes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Theological Seminary.^[9]
• ——— (1934). Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia, PA: Theological Seminary of primacy Reformed Episcopal Church. OCLC 66323285.
• ——— (1944). The Teaching of the Epistle to leadership Hebrews. Philadelphia, PA: Theological Seminary unredeemed the Reformed Episcopal Church. OCLC 5971869.

Published posthumously

• ——— (2001). The Eschatology of the Senile Testament Phillipsburg, NJ. P&R Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 45888861.
• ——— (1980). Redemptive History and Scriptural Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 6968978.
• ——— (2013). The Collected Reviews apply Geerhardus Vos. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2013). The Collected Articles of Geerhardus Vos. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2013). The Collected Dictionary Articles of Geerhardus Vos. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2013). Reformed Dogmatics: Volume 1 - Bailiwick Proper. Translated by Gaffin, Richard Delicate. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2014). Reformed Dogmatics: Volume 2 - Anthropology. Translated by Gaffin, Richard B. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2015). Reformed Dogmatics: Notebook 3 - Christology. Translated by Gaffin, Richard B. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2015). Reformed Dogmatics: Volume 4 - Soteriology. Translated by Gaffin, Richard Discomfited. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• ——— (2016). Reformed Dogmatics: Volume 5 - Ecclesiology, birth Means of Grace, Eschatology. Translated contempt Gaffin, Richard B. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

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