Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Herman Ridderbos: "Paul, An Outline of His Theology"

Ridderbos, Herman. Paul: An Outline of His Theology (trans. John Richard De Witt). Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1975.

An edition is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-An-Outline-His-Theology/dp/0802844693/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376960948&sr=8-1&keywords=herman+ridderbos

 

Herman Nicolaas Ridderbos (1909 – 2007) was born on February 13, 1909, in Easterein, Friesland, the Netherlands.

Can't go to seminary? Buy all Mr. Ridderbos's volumes...read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. Mr. Ridderbos was connected with the famous names of Misters (Revs. Drs. Profs.) Grosheide and Greidanus. Further, he was catechetized in the Reformed Faith, Three Forms of Unity and Psalm-singing, producing unique doctrine, worship and piety (unseen in America, essentially). Poor Mr. (Canterbury) Laud could only wish he had the same background as Mr. Ridderbos.

He grew up in the Reformed Church and was an important New Testament theologian, having worked extensively on the history of salvation (Heilsgeschichte) and biblical theology.

His father, Jan Ridderbos, was an ordained minister in the Reformed Church of the Netherlands, a biblical commentator, and professor of Old Testament at the Theological School of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands in Kampen. Herman Ridderbos completed his undergraduate studies there, and did his post-graduate work at the Free University of Amsterdam under F. W. Grosheide, qualifying for his doctorate in 1936. In 1943, after serving as a pastor for eight years, Ridderbos was appointed to the post of Professor of New Testament Studies at that same school, succeeding Dr. Sidney Greidanus who had been one of his professors. He served there for over forty years.

Author’s Preface

Translator’s Preface

I. Main Lines in the History of Pauline Interpretation


 1. Introduction
2. F.C. Baur (the Tubingen School)
3. The Liberal Interpretation and its Decline
4. The History of Religions Approach
5. The Eschatological Interpretation
6. Continuing Development

II. Fundamental Structures

7. The Fullness of Time
8. The Revelation of the Mystery
9. The Mystery of Christ, Eschatology and Christology
10. The Firstborn from the Dead. The Last Adam.
11. Revealed in the Flesh. Flesh and Spirit
12. Christ the son of God, and the Image of God
13. The Firstborn of Every Creature
14. Christ the Exalted and Coming Kurios

III. The Life in Sin

15. The Present World, Aeon, Cosmos
16. The Universality of Sin. Flesh, Adam.
17. The Essence of Sin. Anthropological or Theological.
18. The Wrath of God.
19. The Corruption of Man
20. Romans 7 in the Pauline Anthropology
21. The Antithesis in Judaism
22. No Righteousness by the Law. “Boast” and “Skandalon
23. The Law Impotent because of the Flesh. The Bondage of the Law.
24. The Law as a Disciplinarian unto Christ.
25. Paul, Judaism, and the Old Testament

IV. The Revelation of the Righteousness of God

26. Introduction
27. The Eschatological Character in Justification
28. The Righteousness of God in Christ
29. Righteousness by Faith, Without the Law
30. The Justification of the Ungodly. Imputation.
31.  Judgment According to Works.

V. Reconciliation

32. God’s Reconciling Activity in Christ. The Peace of God.
33. Christ’s Death as Atonement. Katallge and Hilasmos.
34. Ransom.
35. The Adoption of Sons. The Inheritance.

VI. The New Life

36. The General Point of View
37. Death and Resurrection with Christ
38. Life Through the Spirit
39. The New Man
40. Faith as the Mode of Existence of the New Life
41. The Nature of Faith

VII. The New Obedience

42. Indicative and Imperative
43. The Theocentric Point of View: Santification
44. The Totalitarian Point of View: Perfection
45. Unity and Multiplicity. The Concreteness of Paranesis
46. Tertius Usus Legis
47. Liberty and Conscience
48. Love
49. Life in the World
50. Marriage
51. Social Relationships
52. Subjection to Civil Authority

VIII. Church as the People of God

53. Two Principal Aspects
54. Ekklesia
55. “Saints,” “Elect,” “Beloved,” “Called”
56. The New Covenant. Universal and Particular
57. The Nature of Election. God’s Purpose
58. The Future of Israel

IX. The Church as the Body of Christ

59. Various Viewpoints and Problems
60. “Body” and “Body of Christ” (Romans and 1 Corinthians)
61. Body and Head (Ephesians and Colossians)
62. Christ the Head of All Things. The Church as Pleroma.
63. The Church as the People of God and as the Body of Christ

X. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper

64. Different Definitions of Baptism
65. Baptism as Means of Salvation
66. The Redemptive Significance of the Lord’s Supper
67. The Critical Significance of the Lord’s Supper. Self-examination.

XI. The Upbuilding of the Church

68. The Church as an Edifice
69. Extensive and Intensive Upbuilding
70. The Spiritual Equipment of the Church—Charisma and Ministry (Office)
71. Diversity of Gifts
72. Ecclesiastical Order and Discipline
73. Worship

XII. The Future of the Lord

74. The Life of Expectation. The “Nearness.”
75. Death Before the Parousia. The “Intermediate State.”
76. The Revelation of the Man of Lawlessness
77. The Parousia
78. The Resurrection
79. The Judgment
80. The Consummation. The Eternal State.

Indexes

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