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The Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline is unavailable, but you can change that!

Delivered in May, 1894, as his inaugural address as professor of biblical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, this groundbreaking work has seen republication several times since, growing in popularity and referenced as often as any of Vos’ other works. Here he discusses the fundamental idea behind the pursuit of biblical theology, and the very nature of biblical theology itself.

our investigations as to the origin of the Scriptures, their collection into a Canon, their original text, as well as the exegetical researches by which the contents of the Biblical writings are inductively ascertained, ultimately serve the one purpose of teaching us what God has revealed concerning Himself. None of these studies find their aim in themselves, but all have their value determined and their place assigned by the one central study to which they are leading up and in which they find their
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