Henri Blocher

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Henri A. G. Blocher (born September 3, 1937 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a French Baptist evangelical theologian.

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Biography

Blocher earned a B.D. degree from Gordon Divinity School (1959). [1]

Ministry

In 1961, he became a professor at the Biblical Institute of Nogent-sur-Marne until 2016. [2] In 1965, he became professor of systematic theology at the fr:Faculté libre de théologie évangélique de Vaux-sur-Seine in Vaux-sur-Seine, in France, until 2003, of which he is one of the honorary deans. [3] In 2003, he became professor of systematic theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton (Illinois) until 2008.

Blocher was involved with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelisation from 1975 to 1980 and is connected to a number of Evangelical groups and colleges around the world. [4]

He is the author of many articles and several books on a variety of theological topics.

Blocher is a proponent of the framework interpretation of the Genesis creation account. [5]

Recognition

He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Westminster Theological Seminary in 2014, where he also gave the commencement address. [6]

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References

  1. FLTE, Henri Blocher : Parcours, flte.fr, France, retrieved February 4, 2023
  2. Daniel Hillion, Henri Blocher, personnalité de l’année Archived 2021-10-24 at the Wayback Machine , christianismeaujourdhui.info, Switzerland, December 20, 2017
  3. Lafree, Henri Blocher fête ses 80 ans, lafree.ch, Switzerland, August 18, 2017
  4. "Faculty biography at Wheaton College". Archived from the original on 2007-05-20. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
  5. Blocher, Henri. In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis. Leicester: InterVarsity, 1984.
  6. Blocher, Henri (2014). "Commencement address". WTS.