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Description: Includes a brief biography and the article "The Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline."
Geerhardus Vos was born March 14, 1862, in the Netherlands. In 1881, he came to the United States, when his father accepted the pastorate of a Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, MI. He continued his theological studies first in Grand Rapids, then at Princeton Seminary; and completed his studies in Germany. Vos received his doctor's degree in Arabic Studies in 1888 from the philosophical faculty at Strassburg. Upon receiving his doctorate, Dr. Vos accepted a position in 1888 with the faculty of the Theological School of the Christian Reformed Churches. In 1892, Vos accepted appointment as professor of the newly created chair of Biblical Theology at Princeton Seminary, where he taught until he retired in 1932. During his 39 years at Princeton, Dr. Vos laid the groundwork for his best-known books:
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