Background
He was born in Tiel, Gelderland, but his family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1911.
He was born in Tiel, Gelderland, but his family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1911.
Hendriksen studied at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary before obtaining an South.T.D. degree from Pike"s Peak Bible Seminary, as was common for on-the-job pastors seeking doctorates in the 1930s and 1940s.
lieutenant is there that he wrote the thesis More than Conquerors. This book has never gone off the market since it was then privately printed and Herman Baker issued it as the first publication of the new Baker Book House in 1940. He received a Doctor of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Hendriksen served as a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, with a stint as Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary from 1942 to 1952.
He started the New Testament Commentary, completing commentaries on half of the New Testament books This series was published by Baker and completed by Simon Kistemaker after Hendriksen"s death.
He also translated the Book of Revelation for the New International Version. In his influential work Israel and Prophecy, written a year after the 1967 war, and still in print, Hendriksen criticized the view, held by Restorationists and Christian Zionists, that the Bible prophesies the return and restoration of the Jews to the land of Israel.
Hendriksen"s work has been described as "a classic representation of replacement theology".
Hendriksen has been described as "one of the leading and most respected of New Testament commentators.".