be employed by many whose objective was to separate their study of biblical texts from the authority of the Bible and Christian readings of it.33 Adolf Schlatter called this approach to the Bible’s theology a “radical and total polemic against it.”34 Geerhardus Vos is regarded as something of a pioneer by many North American evangelical students of biblical theology. In a sense, Vos salvaged the tool from the damage done to it by the Enlightenment. Vern Poythress suggests that biblical theology had