改革宗聖經神學之父-魏斯堅 vos

geerhardus vos-魏斯堅 (1862-1946)

“He was probably the best exegete Princeton ever had,” Benjamin B. Warfield once told Louis Berkhof about their mutual friend Geerhardus Vos. Abraham Kuyper was so impressed with Vos’s academic ability that Kuyper offered him a faculty position at the Free University of Amsterdam when Vos was only twenty-four years old. Before Vos was thirty, both William H. Green and Herman Bavinck urged him to come teach at their respective institutions. J. Gresham Machen said that if he knew as much as Vos, he would be writing all the time. John Murray believed that Vos was the most incisive exegete in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century. Cornelius Van Til considered Vos the most erudite man he had ever known. Richard B. Gaffin Jr. proclaimed Vos “the father of Reformed biblical theology.” Notwithstanding such acclaim among these and other leading Reformed theologians, and his teaching at Princeton Seminary from 1893 to 1932, Vos was increasingly marginalized during his own lifetime. In Geerhardus Vos: Reformed Biblical Theologian, Confessional Presbyterian, Danny Olinger tells the story of Vos’s life and analyzes the theological contributions of Vos’s writings. Olinger further details Vos’s significant influence upon the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Westminster Theological Seminary, despite not joining either one.
「他可能是普林斯頓大學有史以來最好的釋經家，」華菲德 （Benjamin B. Warfield） 曾向路易斯·伯克富 （Louis Berkhof） 講述他們共同的朋友魏斯堅 （Geerhardus Vos）。凱波爾對魏斯堅的學術能力印象深刻，以至於在魏斯堅年僅二十四歲時，凱波爾曾邀請他承擔阿姆斯特丹自由大學的教職。魏斯堅三十歲之前，威廉·格林和赫爾曼·巴文克都敦促他到各自的機構任教。J. Gresham Machen 梅欽說，如果他知道的和魏斯堅 一樣多，他就會一直寫作。John Murray 約翰·默里認為魏斯堅是二十世紀英語世界最精闢的釋經家。范泰爾認為魏斯堅是他所認識的最博學的人。小理查德·加芬（Richard B. Gaffin Jr.）宣稱魏斯堅是 「改革宗聖經神學之父」。儘管在這些和其他主要的改革宗神學家中享有如此好的讚譽，並且他於 1893 年至 1932 年在普林斯頓神學院任教，但魏斯堅在他自己的一生中卻越來越被邊緣化。在《Geerhardus Vos： Reformed Biblical Theologian， Confessional Presbyterian》一書中，丹尼·奧林格（Danny Olinger）講述了沃斯的生平故事，並分析了沃斯著作的神學貢獻。奧林格進一步詳細介紹了魏斯堅對正統教長老會和西敏斯特神學院的重大影響，儘管他沒有加入其中任何一個教會神學院。

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