Herman Ridderbos‟s Redemptive -historical ... - Riemer Roukema

voluminous works, The Coming of the Kingdom and Paul: An Outline of his Theology
can be categorized as Biblical theology 56 and that this subject is still intensively
taught at Kampen and elsewhere.
For many decades after the Second World War, Ridderbos was of great
importance for the education of many students, preachers and members of the
Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and elsewhere. He had a clear view of the
Gospel of Christ and did not swim with the tide. He was open to new developments,
but also knew how to keep his distance. In comparison to Kuyper, Greijdanus, and
Grosheide he showed more openness for the critical questions about the historicity
and the authority of Scriptures. Inevitably the positions have shifted since then. It is
characteristic of his greatness that he can appreciate this.
56 See also H. N. Ridderbos, “De theologie van het Nieuwe Testament”, in Inleiding tot de studie van
het Nieuwe Testament (ed. A. F. J. Klijn; Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok, 1982), 173-90.
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