Authors

Jakob Van Bruggen (ThD, Utrecht University) is research professor of New Testament at the Theological University in Kampen, Netherlands, where he taught from 1967 until 2001. He is the author of more than fifteen commentaries and monographs in Dutch and English, including Christ on Earth: The Gospel Narratives as History; Jesus the Son of God: The Gospel Narratives as Message; and The Future of the Bible. He is general editor of a major New Testament commentary series published by J. H. Kok, Kampen. He has lectured at seminaries and colleges in several countries and has presented papers at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Cornelis Van Dam is professor of Old Testament at the Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary (Hamilton, Ontario) and holds degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University (BA); Theological College of the Canadian Reformed Churches (BD); Knox College, University of Toronto (ThM) and Theological University of Kampen, The Netherlands (ThD).

Donald Van Dyken was pastor of the Orthodox Christian Reformed Church of Sunnyside, Washington, and an avid teacher of the catechism for many years.

Dr. J van Genderen was a professor at the Theological University of the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in Apeldoorn. He taught dogmatics, the history of doctrine, and symbolics (the creeds).

Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) was born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to America in 1905. He attended Calvin College and Calvin Seminary before completing his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University with the ThM and PhD degrees. 

Drawn to the pastorate, Van Til spent one year in the ministry before taking a leave of absence to teach apologetics at Princeton Seminary. When the seminary reorganized, he was persuaded to join the faculty of the newly founded Westminster Theological Seminary. He remained there as professor of apologetics until his retirement in 1972. 

Van Til wrote more than twenty books, in addition to more than thirty syllabi. Among his best-known titles are The Defense of the Faith, A Christian Theory of Knowledge, and An Introduction to Systematic Theology.

Gene Edward Veith (PhD, MPhil, MA, English, University of Kansas) is provost and professor of literature at Patrick Henry College, a Christian classical liberal arts college in Purcellville, Virginia.

Dr. W. H. Velema is a professor emeritus at the Theological University of the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in Apeldoorn. He taught, among other subjects, apologetics, ethics, and homeletics.

Cornelis P. Venema (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is president of Mid-America Reformed Seminary, where he is also professor of doctrinal studies.

Johannes Pieter Versteeg (1938-1987) was a talented Dutch theologian at the University of Vrije and a pastor in the Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (Abraham Kuyper's denomination) who's radio broadcasts took complex theological concepts and explained them in everyday language. 

Brian Vickers (MA, Wheaton College; MDiv, PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Stephen Voorwinde (MA, Monash University, Melbourne; ThM, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; doctoral candidate, Australian College of Theology) is professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia.

Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949) was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to the USA in 1881. He earned degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Strasbourg (PhD in Arabic). In 1894 he was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the USA. Before beginning a thirty-nine year tenure on Princeton’s faculty, he was professor of systematic and exegetical theology at Calvin for five years.

Johannes G. Vos (1903–1983) chaired Geneva College’s Bible department for nineteen years, edited Blue Banner Faith and Life for nearly thirty, and wrote numerous books and articles.

Matthew S. Vos (MEd, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; PhD, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) is professor of sociology at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.

Jan van Vliet (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is professor of economics emeritus at Dordt University and past professor of theology at Prairie College in Alberta. He is the author of The Rise of Reformed System: The Intellectual Heritage of William Ames and the translator of Abraham Kuyper’s On Islam.

Abigail van der Velde was born and raised in North Carolina, lived in New York City, and then married a Dutchman and moved to the Netherlands, where she lived for eight years. With previous experience in journalism and editing, she now writes fiction. Johanna and Henriette Kuyper is her first novel.