The knowledge of God considered historically. Vos’s preferred term was "the History of Special Revelation."

Latin phrase meaning "in the presence of God."

The doctrine of the church, from the Greek "ekklesia" or "assembly."

Pertaining to the last things, from Greek "eschatos" or "last." Describes the ultimate glorious state of things promised in the covenant.

Principles of interpretation, or "how to read your Bible."

Latin phrase meaning "The History of Salvation." The accomplishment of redemption. The objective, covenantal redemptive acts work by God in history, particularly the atoning work of Christ, His incarnation, humiliation, death, resurrection, ascension, and glorification.

Latin phrase meaning "The Order of Salvation." The application of redemption. The logical order or progression by which the benefits of the Salvation worked by Christ are applied to us by the Spirit, customarily presented this way (cf Rom 8:30):

Predestination
Regeneration/Effectual Calling
Saving Faith
Repentance
Justification
Adoption
Sanctification
Perseverance
Glorification

The Second Coming of Christ, literally "presence" in Greek. See Matthew 24:27 etc.

An adjective describing that which pertains to the history of redemption.

The doctrine of salvation, from the Greek "soteria" or "salvation."

The knowledge of God considered topically. Also known as "dogmatics."

Latin phrase meaning "The Way of Salvation." Answers the question, "What must I do to be saved?"

Born in Friesland, the Netherlands in 1862 to German parents, Vos emigrated to the US in 1881 when his father accepted a call to a Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied theology in Grand Rapids, at Princeton Seminary, and in Germany. Recognizing Vos’s great potential, in 1886 Abraham Kuyper offered him a position at the Free University of Amsterdam, but Vos declined, electing instead to assume a position at the Theological School of the Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. After repeated pleas from his former professor William Henry Green, Vos accepted an appointment in 1894 to the newly created chair of biblical theology at Princeton Seminary, the bastion of Old School Presbyterianism. In the same year he was ordained in the Presbytery of New Brunswick of the Presbyterian Church USA. He remained at Princeton until his retirement in 1932. Vos’s works include The Teaching of Jesus Regarding the Kingdom of God and the Church (1903), The Self-Disclosures of Jesus (1926), The Pauline Eschatology (1930), Biblical Theology (1948). He died in relative obscurity in Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania in 1949.