So I don’t know what to make of Geerhardus Vos. I’m a late-comer to him, to be sure, but I recently read his “Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed History,” which appears in the collection Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation. I have a few interesting observations of his work, and perhaps I can go in more detail in subsequent posts.

1st) Vos is largely responding to the critics of “Covenant Theology” or “Federalism,” but also those who say that it represents a novelity in the Reformed tradition. Vos does this in a rather sophisticated way, however, since he freely admits that Calvin was not a covenant theologian. Vos also admits the Lutherans never latched on to this sytem, and he puts some distance between the Lutherans and Reformed.

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