“Biblical theology,” or “redemptive-historical” theology may be new terms or perhaps confusing. After all, is not Reformed theology supposed to be biblical? Yes, it is but in the history of theology there developed, in the 19th century, a movement that intended to do theology that, to a large degree, set aside traditional “dogmatic” or “systematic” theology and vocabulary. In a sense it was a “back to the Bible” movement but done under a set of mostly unhappy assumptions about the nature of Scripture, the unity of Scripture, the authorship of Scripture, and the reliability of Scripture. Then, after the turn of the 20th century Princeton Seminary called a young Dutch scholar, Geerhardus Vos to leave the Theological College of the Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, where, as it happens, he had been teaching Reformed Dogmatics, to become Professor of Biblical Theology. Vos criticized the 19th-century German Biblical Theology movement but learned from it and renewed the old Reformed redemptive-historical reading of Scripture. In so doing he became a pioneer in the modern, believing, Reformed biblical theology movement. In short, biblical theology, as conceived by Vos, his colleague B. B. Warfield, and Vos’ student, John Murray among others, was intended to be the study of the unfolding story of redemption, paying attention to the threads of Scripture and to the unifying story of Scripture. Reading Scripture this way, the way Scripture wants to be read and teaches us to read it, helps us to see (as our Lord indicated in Luke 24) that all the Scriptures testify of him.

Here is a list of resources from the introductory to the more advanced:

1. What the Bible Is All About
2. This Christian Life
3. Reading the Scriptures As the Apostles Did Or Some Other Way?
4. Derke Bergsma, Redemption: The Triumph of God’s Great Plan
5. Derke Bergsma, Monday Through Friday in the Word: Weekday Inspiration
6. Dennis Johnson, Journeys With Jesus: Every Path in the Bible Leads Us To Christ
7. Brown and Keele, Sacred Bond: Covenant Theology Explored
8. Is There An Apostolic Hermeneutic And Can We Imitate It?
9. Reading the Prophets With The New Testament (1)
10. Reading the Prophets With The New Testament (2)
11. Dennis Johnson, Walking With Jesus Through His Word: Discovering Christ In All Of Scripture
12. Dennis Johnson, Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ From All The Scriptures
13. Edmund Clowney, The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament
14. Geerhardus Vos, Grace and Glory (his chapel messages from Princeton Seminary)
15. Edmund Clowney, Preaching Christ in All of Scripture
16. Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology
17. Michael Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology
18. Geerhardus Vos, The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church
19. M. G. Kline, The Essential Writings
20. Herman Ridderbos, The Coming of the Kingdom
21. Ned B. Stonehouse, The Witness of the Synoptic Gospels to Christ
22. Geerhardus Vos, Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
23. Geerhardus Vos, The Eschatology of the Old Testament
24. Geerhardus Vos, The Self-Disclosure of Jesus
25. Geerhardus Vos, The Teaching of the Epistle to the Hebrews
26. Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology
27. Johannes Cocceius, The Doctrine of the Covenant and Testament of God
28. J. V. Fesko, “On the Antiquity of Biblical Theology,” in Resurrection and Eschatology: Theology in the Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., ed. by Lane G. Tipton and Jeffrey C. Waddington (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008).