Dutch-American Reformed theologian (1873–1957) whose Systematic Theology (1932, expanded 1938) has been the standard one-volume introduction to Reformed dogmatics in the English-speaking world for nearly a century. Berkhof was born in the Netherlands, emigrated to Michigan as a child, trained at Calvin Theological Seminary and Princeton Seminary (under Warfield and Vos), and taught at Calvin for over thirty-five years (1906–1944), serving as president from 1931 to 1944. His Systematic Theology is essentially a synthesis of Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics with Hodge's structure and clarity, packaged for English-speaking seminarians and pastors. He also wrote The History of Christian Doctrines, Introduction to Systematic Theology, Manual of Christian Doctrine, and Principles of Biblical Interpretation. The strength of Berkhof is precisely his synthetic clarity: he is not the most original Reformed theologian, but he is among the most pastorally useful. Generations of Reformed seminarians have begun with Berkhof and worked outward into Calvin, Turretin, Hodge, and Bavinck. For the patriarchal-Reformed reader's library, Berkhof is the first systematic theology to own.