1. Geerhardus Johannes Vos was a Dutch-American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology.
12 Facts About Geerhardus Vos
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Geerhardus Vos is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical theology.
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In 1881, when Geerhardus was 19 years old, his father, Jan Vos, accepted a call to be the pastor of a Christian Reformed Church congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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In September, 1881, Geerhardus Vos began his higher education at the Christian Reformed Church's Theological School, which is today's Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, and his exceptional talents were soon recognized by the school, for he earned his bachelor's degree in a single year.
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In 1883, Geerhardus Vos was enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary, and he had already mastered German, Dutch, Latin, French, English, Greek and Hebrew by that time.
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Geerhardus Vos carried on further studies at the University of Berlin in Germany in 1886.
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Geerhardus Vos received his doctorate in Arabic Studies from the Philosophy Faculty of Strassburg University in 1888.
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Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper tried to convince Geerhardus Vos to become Professor of Old Testament Theology at the Free University in Amsterdam, but Geerhardus Vos chose to return to America.
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Geerhardus Vos was installed as Professor of Didactic and Exegetical Theology at the Spring Street Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids on September 4,1888.
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In 1892, Geerhardus Vos moved and joined the faculty of the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he became its first Professor of Biblical Theology.
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Bernardus Geerhardus Vos joined Gresham Machen's newly formed church, which was later renamed as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1939.
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Geerhardus Vos' body was then buried in the tiny village of Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 17,1949.