Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949)

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Geerhardus Vos is buried at Roaring Branch Griffin Cemetery, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

Geerhardus Vos is buried at Roaring Branch Griffin Cemetery, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes (1886)

Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banū ʼUmajja und den Banū Hāšim (1888)

Review of Strack, Zöckler and Schultz (1889)

Review of H. B. Gravemeijer, Leesboek over de Gereformeerde Geloofsleer (1890)

Review of A. Keunen, Historisch-Critisch Onderzoek naar het Ontstaan en de Verzameling van de Boeken des Ouden Verbonds: De Profetische Boeken des Ouden Verbonds (1891)

Calvinism and Confessional Revision (1891)

De verbondsleer in de Gereformeerde theologie [Dutch original of The Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology] (1891)

Recent Dogmatic Thought in the Netherlands (1892)

Review of E.H. van Leeuwen, Prolegomena van Bijbelsche Godgeleerdheid (1893)

Review of A. Kuyper, De Verflauwing der Grenzen (1893)

The Future of Calvinism (1894)

Inauguration of the Rev. Geerhardus Vos, Ph.D., D.D., as Professor of Biblical Theology (1894)

Review of Herman Schultz, Old Testament Theology (1894)

Review of A.F. Kirkpatrick, The Doctrine of the Prophets (1894)

Review of Johannes Weiss, Die Predigt Jesu vom Reiche Gottes; W. Bousset, Jesu Predigt in ihrem Gegensatz zum Judenthum; and Georg Schnedermann, Jesu Verkündigung und Lehre vom Reiche Gottes in ihrer geschichtlichen Bedeutung dargestellt (1894)

Review of A.G. Honig, Alexander Comrie (1894)

Review of G. Wildeboer, De letterkunde des Ouden Verbonds naar de tijdsorde van haar Ontstaan (1894)

Review of A.C. Duker, Gisbertus Voetius (1894)

Review of Ch. Piepenbring, Theology of the Old Testament (1895)

Review of Willibald Beyschlag, New Testament Theology or Historical Account of the Teaching of Jesus and of Primitive Christianity According to the New Testament Sources (1895)

Review of A.B. Bruce, St. Paul’s Conception of Christianity (1895)

Syllabus of Lectures on Biblical Theology (1895)

Review of Herman Bavinck, Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, Vol. 1 (1896)

Review of C.A. Briggs, The Messiah of the Gospels and The Messiah of the Apostles (1896)

Review of William H. Green, The Higher Criticism Of The Pentateuch and The Unity Of The Book Of Genesis (1896)

Dogmatiek, Vol. 1 (1896)

Dogmatiek, Vol. 2 (1896)

Dogmatiek, Vol. 3 (1896)

Dogmatiek, Vol. 4 (1896)

Dogmatiek, Vol. 5 (1896)

Review of Ph. J. Hoedemaker, De Mozaische Oorsprong van de Wetten in de boeken Exodus, Leviticus en Numeri (1897)

Some Doctrinal Features of the Early Prophecies of Isaiah (1897)

Calvinism and the Future (1898)

The Modern Hypothesis and Recent Criticism of the Early Prophets, Part 1 (1898)

The Modern Hypothesis and Recent Criticism of the Early Prophets, Part 2 (1898)

The Modern Hypothesis and Recent Criticism of the Early Prophets, Part 3 (1899)

The Modern Hypothesis and Recent Criticism of the Early Prophets, Part 4 (1899)

Review of Herman Bavinck, Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, Vol. 2 (1899)

Fool (1899)

Review of Johannes Dalmer, Die Erwählung Israels nach der Heilsverkündigung des Apostels Paulus (1900)

Review of W. Lütgert, Das Reich Gottes nach den Synoptischen Evangelien (1900)

Review of E. Schäder, Die Bedeutung des lebendigen Christus für die Rechtfertigung nach Paulus (1900)

The Kingdom of God (1900)

Review of R.F. Grau, Gottes Volk und Sein Gesetz (1900)

Review of George B. Stevens, The Theology of the New Testament (1900)

Our Lord’s Doctrine of the Resurrection (1901)

Review of J. Meinhold, Die Jesajaersählungen Jesaja 36-39 (1901)

Review of H.J. Bestmann, Entwicklungsgeschichte des Reiches Gottes (1901)

The Pauline Conception of Reconciliation (1901)

Review of J.M.S. Baljon, Grieksch-Theologisch Woordenboek, Hoofdzakelijk van de oud-Christelijke Letterkunde (1901)

The Scriptural Doctrine of the Love of God (1902)

The Pauline Conception of Redemption (1902)

The Nature and Aims of Biblical Theology (1902)

The Sacrificial Idea in Paul's Doctrine of the Atonement (1902)

The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church (1903)

The Alleged Legalism in Paul’s Doctrine of Justification (1903)

The Theology of Paul (1903)

Review of Wilhelm Bousset, Die Religion des Judentums im Neutestamentlichen Zeitalter (1904)

Review of Geerhardus Vos, The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church (1904)

Review of M. Friedländer, Geschichte der Jüdischen Apologetik als Vorgeschichte des Christenthums (1904)

Review of Martin Brückner, Die Entstehung der Paulinischen Christologie (1905)

Review of Emil Sokolowski, Die Begriffe Geist und Leben bei Paulus in ihren Beziehungen zu einander (1905)

Review of Johannes Weiss, Die Offenbarung des Johannes (1905)

Review of J. Göttsberger and J. Eickenberger, Biblische Zeitschrift in Verbindung mit der Redaktion der Biblischen Studien (1905)

Review of H.A.A. Kennedy, St. Paul’s Conception of the Last Things (1905)

Review of Julius Kögel, Der Sohn und die Söhne (1905)

Review of Irving F. Wood, The Spirit of God in Biblical Literature (1905)

Review of A.B. Davidson, The Theology of the Old Testament (1906)

Review of Lewis A. Muirhead, The Eschatology of Jesus; Or, The Kingdom Come and Coming (1906)

Review of Shailer Mathews, The Messianic Hope in the New Testament (1906)

Christian Faith and the Truthfulness of Bible History (1906)

Review of Friedrich Bohn, Der Sabbat im Alten Testament und im altjüdischen religiösen Aberglauben (1906)

Review of R. Travers Herford, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash (1906)

Review of J. Göttsberger and J. Sickenberger, Biblische Zeitschrift (1906)

Covenant (1906)

Review of A. Schlatter and W. Lütgert, Beiträge zur Förderung Christlicher Theologie (1907)

Review of R.J. Knowling, The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ Viewed in Some of Its Aspects (1907)

The Priesthood of Christ in the Epistle to the Hebrews (1907)

Review of Nathaniel Schmidt, The Prophet of Nazareth (1907)

Review of Julius Kaftan, Jesus und Paulus (1907)

Review of Dr. J. Göttsberger and J. Sickenberger, Biblische Zeitschrift in Verbindung mit der Redation der “Biblischen Studien,” 1906 (1907)

Review of Heinrich Hilgenfeld, Verzeichnis der von Adolf Hilgenfeld verfassten Schriften (1907)

Salvation (1908)

Saviour (1908)

Review of James H. Ropes, The Apostolic Age in Light of Modern Criticism (1908)

Review of Ernest J. Scott, The Fourth Gospel: Its Purpose and Theology (1908)

Review of James Hastings, ed., A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels (1908)

Review of W.H. Bennett, The Religion of the Post-Exilic Prophets (1909)

Review of A. Schlatter, Der Zweifel an der Messianität Jesu (1909)

Review of Max Meinertz, Jesus und die Heidenmission (1909)

Review of W.O.E. Oesterley and G.H. Box, The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue (1909)

Review of Ludwig Couard, Die Religiösen und Sittlichen Anschauungen der Alttestamentlichen Apokryphon und Pseudepigraphen (1909)

Calvin and Common Grace (1909)

The Philosophy of Revelation (1909)

The Present and the Future Kingdom (1910)

Review of Karl Marti, The Religion of the Old Testament (1910)

Review of Wilhelm Caspari, Echtheit, Hauptbegriff und Gedankengang der Messianischen Weissagung; and J. Boehmer, Gottes Angesicht (1910)

Review of James Denney, Jesus and the Gospel (1910)

Review of Edward W. Winstanley, Spirit in the New Testament (1910)

Review of William Fairweather, The Background of the Gospels: Or, Judaism in the Period Between the Old and New Testaments (1910)

Review of Eduard König, Ahasver “der ewige Jude” (1910)

Review of Henry B. Swete, The Holy Spirit in the New Testament: A Study of Primitive Christian Teaching (1910)

The Pauline Eschatology and Chiliasm (1911)

Review of Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1911)

Review of John Adams, Israel’s Ideal or Studies in Old Testament Theology (1911)

Review of Biblische Zeitschrift in Verbindung mit der Redaktion der “Biblischen Studien”, 1909 (1911)

Review of Cyril W. Emmet, The Eschatological Question in the Gospels and Other Studies in Recent New Testament Criticism (1911)

Review of Henry C. Sheldon, New Testament Theology (1911)

Review of Eduard Hertlein, Die Menschensohnfrage im Letzen-Stadium (1912)

Review of Johannes Behm, Die Handauflegung im Urchristentum nach Verwendung, Herkunft und Bedeutung in religionsgeschlichtlichem Zusammenhang untersucht (1912)

Review of Jelte Swart, De Theologie van Kronieken (1912)

Review of Carl Clemen, Der geschichtliche Jesus (1912)

Review of K. Six, Das Aposteldekret (Acts 15:28, 29). Seine Entstehung und Geltung in den ersten vier Jahrhunderten (Preisschrift) (1912)

The Eschatological Aspect of the Pauline Conception of the Spirit (1912)

Review of F. Prat, La Théologie de Saint Paul (1913)

Review of Percy Gardner, The Religious Experience of Saint Paul (1913)

The Range of the Logos-Name in the Fourth Gospel (1913)

Review of Johannes Behm, Der Begriff Diaqhkh im Neuen Testament (1913)

Review of Kurt Diessner, Auferstehungshoffnung und Pneumagedanke bei Paulus (1913)

Review of F. Büchse, Der Begriff der Wahrheit in dem Evangelium und den Briefen des Johannes (1913)

Review of Albert Schweitzer, Paul and His Interpreters (1914)

Review of R.H. Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life and Immortality (1914)

Review of Carl Clemen, Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources (1914)

Review of Hermann Gunkel, Reden und Aufsätze (1914)

Review of Wilhelm Bousset, Kyrios Christos (1914)

Review of G. Nowell Rostron, The Christology of St. Paul (1914)

Review of H. Wheeler Robinson, The Religious Ideas of the Old Testament (1915)

Review of James Moffatt, The Theology of the Gospels (1915)

Review of Georg Faber, Buddhistische und Neutestamentliche Erzählungen (1915)

The Continuity of the Kyrios-Title in the New Testament (1915)

Review of G. Ch. Aalders, Sporen van Animisme in het Oude Testament? (1915)

Review of Harris L. MacNeill, The Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Including Its Relation to the Developing Christology of the Primitive Church (1915)

Review of Friedrich Focke, Die Entstehung der Weisheit Salomos (1915)

Review of W.W.G. Baudissin, Zur Geschichte der alttestamentlichen Religion in ihrer universalen Bedeutung (1915)

Review of Eduard König, Das Antisemitische Hauptdogma (1915)

Brotherly Love (1915)

Goodness (Human) (1915)

Joy (1915)

Kindness (1915)

Longsuffering (1915)

Love (1915)

Peace (1915)

Pity, Compassion (1915)

Wicked (1915)

Eschatology of the New Testament (1915)

Gehenna (1915)

Hades (1915)

New Heavens and New Earth (1915)

New Jerusalem (1915)

Lake of Fire (1915)

Last Times (1915)

Omnipotence (1915)

Omnipresence (1915)

Omniscience (1915)

Perdition (1915)

Reprobate (1915)

Hebrews, the Epistle of the Diatheke (1915-1916)

Review of W.O.E. Oesterley, The Books of the Apocrypha (1916)

Review of Henry B. Carré, Paul’s Doctrine of Redemption (1916)

Modern Dislike of the Messianic Consciousness in Jesus (1916)

Review of A. Schlatter, Recht und Schuld in der Geschichte (1916)

Review of A. van Veldhuizen, Het Evangelie van Markus, and J.A.C. van Leeuwen, Het Evangelie van Mattheus (1916)

Review of J. Ridderbos, Israel en de Baäls Afval of Ontwikkeling (1916)

The Ubiquity of the Messiahship in the Gospels (1916)

Review of A. Schlatter, Der Märtyrer in den Anfängen der Kirche (1916)

The Kyrios Christos Controversy (1917)

Review of A. Van Veldhuizen, Paulus en zij Brief aan de Romeinen (1917)

Review of J. De Zwaan, Het Evangelie van Lucas (1919)

Review of Johan T. Ubbink, Het Eeuwige Leven by Paulus (1919)

Eschatology of the Psalter (1920)

The Messiahship: Formal or Essential to the Mind of Jesus? (1920)

The Name “Lord” as Used of Jesus in the Gospels (1922)

Grace and Glory: Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary (1922)

A Song of the Nativity (1924, 1972)

The Self-Disclosure of Jesus: The Modern Debate About the Messianic Consciousness (1926, 1954)

“True” and “Truth” in the Johannine Writings (1927)

Jeremiah’s Plaint and Its Answer (1928)

The Pauline Doctrine of the Resurrection (1929)

Alleged Development in Paul’s Teaching on the Resurrection (1929)

The Structure of the Pauline Eschatology (1929)

Charis, English Verses (1931)

Western Rhymes (1933)

Gerhardus Vos, Ph.D., D.D. (1950)

The Biblical Theology of Geerhardus Vos (1974)


This is Vos’ dissertation written at the University of Strasbourg.

This is Vos’ dissertation written at the University of Strasbourg.

Translation by Vos of a paper by Abraham Kuyper.

Translation by Vos of a paper by Abraham Kuyper.

Translation by Vos of a paper by Herman Bavinck.

Translation by Vos of a paper by Herman Bavinck.

Translation by Vos of a paper by Herman Bavinck.

Translation by Vos of a paper by Herman Bavinck.

Inaugural address: The Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline.

Handwritten in Dutch.

Handwritten in Dutch.

Handwritten in Dutch.

Handwritten in Dutch.

Handwritten in Dutch.

This is the sixth of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures on Calvinism, translated from Dutch into English by Geerhardus Vos.

This is the sixth of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures on Calvinism, translated from Dutch into English by Geerhardus Vos.

This 2-part article appeared in the May and June, 1900 issues of The Bible Student.

This 2-part article appeared in the May and June, 1900 issues of The Bible Student.

This 2-part article appeared in the August and September 1902 issues of The Bible Student.

This essay by Herman Bavinck was translated into English by Geerhardus Vos.

This essay by Herman Bavinck was translated into English by Geerhardus Vos.

Translation into English by Geerhardus Vos and others.

Translation into English by Geerhardus Vos and others.

This review appeared in the January 1913 issue of The Princeton Theological Review.

This review appeared in the April 1913 issue of The Princeton Theological Review.

This article appeared in the July and October 1913 issues of The Princeton Theological Review.

This article appeared in the July 1913 issue of The Princeton Theological Review.

This article appeared in the October 1913 issue of The Princeton Theological Review.

This article appeared in the October 1913 issue of The Princeton Theological Review.

This 2-part article appeared in the October 1915 and January 1916 issues of The Princeton Review.