Meredith G. Kline

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Meredith G. Kline is an American theologian and Old Testament scholar. He is an influential voice for Covenant theology in the Reformed tradition. He is perhaps best known for his important contributions in the area of Suzerain–Vassal treaties in the 2nd millennium BC. He is also well-known for defense of the framework interpretation of the creation story in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Theologian John Frame has called Kline "the most impressive biblical theologian of my lifetime," and he adds, that Kline's work "is orthodox, yet often original, and it always provides [a] rich analysis of Scripture."^[1]

Kline received his AB from Gordon College, Th.B. and Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from in Assyriology and Egyptology from Dropsie College. After a long and fruitful career that covered over 5 decades of teaching on 2 different coasts, Kline is currently a professor emeritus of Old Testament at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, California, as well as professor emeritus of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He remains an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

[edit] Publications

Some of Kline's many publications include:

• God, Heaven, and Har Magedon: A Covenantal Tale of Cosmos and Telos (2006) ISBN 1-59752-478-6
• Glory in Our Midst: A Biblical-Theological Reading of Zechariah's Night Visions (2001) ISBN 1-57910-599-8
• Kingdom Prologue: Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview (2000) ISBN 1-59752-564-2
• The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation (contributor, 2000) ISBN 0-9702245-0-8
• Images of the Spirit (1999) ISBN 1-57910-205-0
• The Structure of Biblical Authority (1997) ISBN 1-57910-069-4
• "Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony," Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith 48 (1996) pp. 2-15
• "Covenant Theology Under Attack" New Horizons (Feb. 1994)
• By Oath Consigned: A Reinterpretation of the Covenant Signs of Circumcision and Baptism (1968)
• Treaty of the Great King: The Covenant Structure of Deuteronomy: Studies and Commentary (1963)
• "Because It Had Not Rained," Westminster Theological Journal 20 (1958) pp. 146-57.
• The Habiru: Kin or Foe of Israel (Doctoral Thesis, 1958)

In addition, a festschrift was published in his honor: Creator Redeemer Consummator: A Festschrift for Meredith G. Kline, edited by H. Griffith and J. R. Muether; Greenville, SC: Reformed Academic Press, 2000.

[edit] References

1. ^ Chapter 28 from Doctrine of the Christian Life, published serially in Reformed Perspectives, vol. 8, no. 37, Sept. 10-16, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Meredith Kline Online - a website with a comprehensive collection of Kline's writings
• The Upper Register - a website with publications by and about Kline from his former student and collaborator Lee Irons
• Meredith G. Kline's Intrusion Ethics
• A Glossary of Klinean Terminology