Series
Since 2013, Lane G. Tipton and Camden Bucey have been working through Geerhardus Vos’s Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments page by page — 117 episodes and counting. Read the assigned pages, then listen along: each episode below notes the chapter it covers and the page range in the Banner of Truth edition.
Overview of Vos's project; historical context; liberal BT critique; BT vs. ST distinction
Guiding principles; practical use of BT study
Continued; objections to the name 'Biblical Theology'; relation to other disciplines
General vs. Special Revelation; Pre-redemptive vs. Redemptive SR; Diatheke
Four principles: life, probation, temptation, death
Mortality and immortality
The three curses; 'seed'; human suffering
Cainites and Sethites
Revelation after the Flood
Prophetic deliverances of Noah; table of the nations
Division of tongues; election of the Shemites
Historicity of the patriarchs; theophanies
Related biblical-theological excursus; not directly keyed to BT chapter
The Angel of Jehovah
Abraham; principle of election; objectivity of gifts; promises fulfilled supernaturally
El-Shaddai; faith in patriarchal religion; ethical elements
Circumcision in the Abraham narrative
Isaac
Jacob; election
Bethel dream-vision; wrestling at Peniel
Prominence of Moses in OT revelation
Pillar of cloud and fire; Angel of Jehovah; the name and face of Jehovah
Deliverance from foreign bondage; divine omnipotence
Deliverance from sin; sovereign grace; the name 'Jehovah'
The Passover
The Sinai covenant; procedure involved; national significance
Theocracy; function of law
The function and purpose of law in the Mosaic economy
World-wide application; religious character; the Ten Words
Prologue; First Word
Second Word
Third and Fourth Words
Symbol and type distinguished
The Tabernacle
Majesty and holiness of God; place of worship
Christ as antitypical Tabernacle
The sacrificial system
Offerings, gifts, sacrifices distinguished
Offerer and sacrifice
Stages of the sacrificial ritual
Vicariousness defined
Meaning of 'covering' (kipper)
Variety of offerings
Uncleanness and purification laws
Totemism; ancestor-worship; animistic theory
Numbered in series as #45 but explicitly an excursus; may integrate into Mosaic chapter notes
Summary episode; rich for conclusion of Mosaic chapter
Kingdom-producing movement; word as instrument; two main periods
The word as instrument; factor of continuity
Names, etymologies of prophet terms; nabhi
Biblical vs. Greek conceptions
Critical theories of prophetism's origin
Prophets and prophetic schools
Numbered as #53 in series; meta-discussion of Vos's influence; suitable as appendix or preface material
Origin of nabhi-ism
Critique of ethical monotheism thesis
Views of Kuenen; 'self-revelation'; divination theory
Objective revelation
Revelation through speech and hearing
Vision; revelation through showing and seeing
Intra-mental state; ecstasy; bodily effects
Grace and Glory sermon (confirmed) — exclude
Speech; miracles
Overview of content section
Prophets and the nature of God
Monotheism; critical views answered
Omnipotence; 'Jehovah of Hosts'
Grace and Glory episode — not part of Biblical Theology series
Jehovah's relation to time and space; omniscience
Grace and Glory sermon — confirm and exclude
Holiness of God
Grace and Glory sermon — confirm and exclude
Righteousness of God
Divine emotions and affections
The covenant bond
The rupture; collective national sin
Corruption of ritual worship; Amos 5:25; Isa 1:10–17
Hosea 6:6; Micah 6:6–9; Amos 4:4; Jer 7:21–23
Grace and Glory sermon — confirm and exclude
Social sin; Hosea's and Isaiah's doctrines of sin
Wellhausen school; eschatological teaching; Hosea; Isaiah; 'latter days'
Likely Grace and Glory — confirm title against Vos sermon collection
Three ways of determining NT structure; OT indications; Jesus's teaching; Paul
Finality of the new dispensation; further revelation expected?
Nativity revelation
Aspects of nativity revelation
Likely Grace and Glory — confirm title against Vos sermon collection
Further aspects of nativity revelation
Matthew 11:2–19; John the Baptist and Elijah
John's baptism; descent of Spirit on Jesus
Baptism of Jesus by John
John 1:15,29,30,34; 3:27–36
The temptation narrative
Christ's temptation and ours; relation to Adam
Deuteronomy in Jesus's responses
Temptability and peccability of Christ
Various aspects of Christ's revealing function
Four divisions of revelation by Christ
Grace and Glory sermon (confirmed) — exclude
Development; method; similes; parables
Parables proper; allegorical method; philosophy of parabolic teaching
'Time' and 'truth' in the Fourth Gospel
Jesus's attitude toward the OT; 'religion of the Book'
Divine fatherhood
Divine majesty, greatness, retributive righteousness
Kingdom in OT; formal questions
Abstract vs. concrete senses; 'kingdom of heaven'; regnum essentiale/personale/spirituale — transcript in episodes/ctc910 folder
Millennial views; modern theories
Two-sided conception of the kingdom
Divine supremacy in sphere of power
Faith as related to kingdom power
'Faith' as used in John
Divine supremacy in sphere of righteousness
Jesus's critique of Jewish ethics
Repentance; divine supremacy in sphere of blessedness; kingdom and church
Kingdom and Church; Matt. 16:18–20; outward organism; new dynamic of the Spirit
Finale of Biblical Theology; resurrection life; Theocentric worship; conclusion of the book
EX marks excursus episodes — related studies and Vos’s Grace and Glory sermons taken up along the way. Page references follow the Banner of Truth edition of Biblical Theology.