Benne Holwerda (22 September 1909 – 30 April 1952) was a Dutch theologian and biblical scholar. He was born in Marrum, studied at the Theological College of Kampen, and became a minister of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. In 1944 he left to help form the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) and served as Professor of Old Testament at the newly established Theological College in Kampen until his death.

Holwerda was an exponent of redemptive-historical preaching.[1][2][3] He "staunchly opposed the moralizing and fragmentary use of the Old Testament" that he encountered.[4] Holwerda believed that "salvation history founds and not only illustrates."[5]

Koert van Bekkum and Eric Peels describe him as a "dynamic and creative biblical scholar".[6] Holwerda had a significant influence on the American Old Testament scholar E. J. Young.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Bartholomew, Craig G. (2017). Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction. InterVarsity Press. p. 94. ISBN 9780830891603. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  2. ↑ van der Kooi, Cornelis; van den Brink, Gijsbert (2017). Christian Dogmatics. Eerdmans. p. 401. ISBN 9780802872654. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  3. ↑ Trimp, Cornelis (1988). Heilsgeschiedenis en prediking: hervatting van een onvoltooid gesprek (in Dutch). Kampen: Uitgeverij Van den Berg. p. 68.
  4. ↑ Boersma, Hans (2017). Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church. Baker Academic. p. xv. ISBN 9781493406654. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  5. ↑ de Bruijne, Ad L. Th. (2014). "Christian Ethics and God's Use of the Bible". Correctly Handling the Word of Truth: Reformed Hermeneutics Today. Wipf and Stock. p. 175. ISBN 9781625649119. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  6. ↑ van Bekkum, Koert; Peels, Eric (2016). "Revelation, History, and Religious Plurality. Old Testament Studies from the Apeldoorn / Kampen Reformed Perspective". The Present State of Old Testament Studies in the Low Countries: A Collection of Old Testament Studies Published on the Occasion of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap. Brill. p. 33. ISBN 9789004326255. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Harman, Allan (1999). "Edward Joseph Young". Bible Interpreters of the 20th Century: A Selection of Evangelical Voices. Baker Books. p. 200.
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