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'''Louis Berkhof''' (1873-1957)—an American [[Reformed]] theologian born in Drenthe province of the Netherlands and emigrated to the States with his parents in 1882, settling in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Berkhof would spend, apart from his education, the rest of his life.
Berkhof's work emphasized that all initiative, virtue, and certainty reside with God, while all the opposite resides with humanity.<ref>''Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed Tradition in America'', D.G. Hart, Mark A. Noll (eds.), Intervarsity Press, 1999, pp.32-33</ref>
==Works==
*''Systematic Theology'' (originally titled ''Reformed Dogmatics'', 1932)
:*''Manual of Reformed Doctrine (1933, popularized distillation of ''Reformed Dogmatics'')
==References==
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