Enjoy The Doctrine Of The Covenant In Reformed Theology Produced By Geerhardus Vos Represented In Interactive EBook

good stuff here on covenant theology by one of the main progenitors of biblical theology in theth c, Excellent stuff here! This book is short and focused! Geerhardus Vos writes very clearly on the Reformed concepts of Covenant Theology what it means to Christian faith, This book ultimately arrives at the explanation that covenant that God makes with Man is one in which men come to understand their relationship to God through the law, Christ's keeping of the law, and Christ's act as high priest that secures grace for believers.
Really helpful article exploring Covenant Theology from a historical perspective, He touches on the various Reformed views of soteriology and sacramentology as they fit into the covenant theology framework, A very useful discussion of the history of covenant theology in the Reformed tradition, though I might not agree with every point, Geerhardus Johannes Vos March,August,was an American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology, He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology, What a phenomenal article. As is normal with Vos, this is not an easy read, It must be read slowly and thoughtfully, But this is a superb overview of Reformed covenant theology, in comparison to the Roman Catholic and Lutheran traditions, The last few pages were especially helpful, where he gives a taxonomy of Reformed views of children in the covenant, and the administration of their Baptism as related to their regeneration.
This is Geerhardus Vos in his early years as a scholastic, For more expounding on the theology of this piece, read Dr, J. V. Fesko's monograph on the covenant of redemption! For the most part this is well written and thought out, However, my strongest critique is in the inconsistent usage of "seed, " Most of the argument centers on the covenant now belonging to the spiritual not physical "seed" of Abraham, This is well attested and well developed, However, in the final section dealing with why paedobaptism fornd gen of believers, Vos makes his sole appeal to the fact that God has always worked through physical seed.
The logic does not hold, or at least he does not develop why this switch is warranted, Geerhardus Johannes Vos was an 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, when Geerhardus wasyears old, his father accepted a call to be the pastor of the Christian Reformed Church congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Geerhardus Vos began his education at the Christian Reformed Churchs Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, before moving to Princeton Theological Seminary, He completed his studies in Germany, receiving his doctorate in Arabic Studies from the Philosophy Faculty of Strassburg University inGeerhardus Johannes Vos was an 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, when Geerhardus wasyears old, his father accepted a call to be the pastor of the Christian Reformed Church congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Geerhardus Vos began his education at the Christian Reformed Church's Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, before moving to Princeton Theological Seminary, He completed his studies in Germany, receiving his doctorate in

Arabic Studies from the Philosophy Faculty of Strassburg University in, sitelink Herman Bavinck and sitelink Abraham Kuyper tried to convince Vos to become professor of Old Testament Theology at the Free University in Amsterdam, but Vos chose to return to America.
Thus, in the Fall of, Vos took up a position on the Calvin Theological Seminary faculty, In, Vos moved and joined the faculty of the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he became its first Professor of Biblical Theology, Inhe was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the USA, At Princeton, he taught alongside sitelink J, Gresham Machen and sitelink Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield and authored his most famous works, including: Pauline Eschatologyand Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments, Despite his opposition to the growing modernist influence at Princeton in the lates, he decided to remain at Princeton Seminary after the formation of Westminster Theological Seminary by Machen, as he was close to retirement.
Vos did indeed retire to California in, three years after the formation of Westminster, Vos's wife, Catherine, authored the well known Child's Story Bible, She died in, afteryears of marriage, They had three sons and one daughter, and their son J, G. Vos studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and also became a minister, sitelink.