Geerhardus Vos: 2 Volumes on Sale

Are you a fan of the biblical theology of Geerhardus Vos? If so, Westminster Bookstore is selling two of his books at 40% off: Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation and Biblical Theology.

Here is a little about Vos:

Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949) was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to the USA 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 39-year tenure on Princeton’s faculty, he was professor of systematic and exegetical theology at Calvin for five years.

And here is what Richard Gaffin has to say about Vos’ Biblical Theology:

“Truly great biblical exposition does not become outdated. While originally addressed to contemporary issues and problems, it continues to lay hold of and shape the life and thought of subsequent generations of the church…In some instances the real impact of exegetical labor may even fall beyond its own time. Possessing rare and unprecedented insight into the meaning and right handling of Scripture, a truly commensurate influence first begins to materialize in the interpretation and hermeneutical reflection of a later day, despite the warm appreciation and admiration of many contemporaries. This is the case with the work of Geerhardus Vos, most of whose shorter writings are reprinted in this volume.

“In a word, Vos is significant because he is the father of a Reformed biblical theology, or, as he much prefers to describe the discipline, “History of Special Revelation.” This is certainly not to say that prior to him in the Reformed tradition there was no awareness of appreciation of the historical character of revelation… But Vos is the first in the Reformed tradition, perhaps even the first orthodox theologian, to give pointed, systematic attention to the doctrinal or positive theological significance of the fact that redemptive revelation comes as an organically unfolding historical process and to begin working out the methodological consequences of this insight.”
– Richard B. Gaffin Jr., Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Emeritus, Westminster Theological Seminary