All Articles For George Martin Ophoff

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Introduction Apart from my parents, two men had the most influence on my life: my two professors in seminary. The one was Rev. Herman Hoeksema; the other was Prof. George M. Ophoff. From Rev. Hoeksema I learned Reformed Dogmatics and how to exegete the New Testament; from Prof. Ophoff I learned the history of the church of Christ and how to exegete the Old Testament. They determined the nature of my ministry in the church of Christ. The seminary was meeting for most of the...

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Ophoff As Professor Throughout his life in the ministry, the center and most important aspect of Ophoff’s work was his labor as professor. I am compelled to look at this aspect of his work from my own perspective because it was in the seminary that I best knew him. In the first year I attended seminary, the school was rather large, with students from our own churches, interested young men and college students who audited various courses, students from the Netherlands, and students from the...