Sidney Greidanus (born 1935) is an American pastor and biblical scholar.

Education

Greidanus studied at

Calvin College Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1876, Calvin University is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reforme ...

and

Calvin Theological Seminary Calvin Theological Seminary is a private Christian Reformed Church seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is closely tied to Calvin University, though each institution has its own board. History The seminary was founded in 1876 with the purpose ...

before obtaining a

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from the Free University in Amsterdam. He served as pastor in the Christian Reformed Church and taught at Calvin College and The King's College before becoming professor of preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary in 1990.

Career

Greidanus is best known for his emphasis on

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from

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

texts. He outlined his method for doing this in ''Preaching Christ from the Old Testament'' (1999). Following the Dutch homiletician Tjeerd Hoekstra, he wrote, "a sermon without Christ is no sermon". Greidanus followed this up with ''Preaching Christ from Genesis'' (2007), ''Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes'' (2010), and ''Preaching Christ from Daniel'' (2012). His newest work in the series, ''Preaching Christ from the Psalms'', came out in September 2016. His other works include ''The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature'' (1989), ''Sola Scriptura: Problems and Principles in Preaching Historical Texts'' (2001), and ''The Beginning and End of Wisdom: Preaching Christ from the First and Last Chapters of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job'' co-authored with Douglas Sean O'Donnell (2011). He has been described as "one of the most important and influential authors today in the area of biblical preaching."

References

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