Henri A. G. Blocher (born 3 September 1937 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a French Baptist evangelical theologian.
Biography Blocher was born on September 3, 1937 to Baptist pastor Jacques Blocher. He is the grandson of Arthur and Madeleine Blocher, as well as the Dutch theologian Hendrik Marius van Nes.
He earned a B.D. degree from Gordon Divinity School in 1959. FLTE, Henri Blocher : Parcours, flte.fr, France, retrieved February 4, 2023
Ministry In 1961, he became a professor at the Biblical Institute of Nogent-sur-Marne until 2016.Daniel Hillion, Henri Blocher, personnalité de l’année , christianismeaujourdhui.info, Switzerland, December 20, 2017 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.Lafree, Henri Blocher fête ses 80 ans, lafree.ch, Switzerland, August 18, 2017 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.
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.Blocher, Henri. In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis. Leicester: InterVarsity, 1984.
Recognition He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Westminster Theological Seminary in 2014, where he also gave the commencement address.
In 2018 he received the Personality of the Year award from Christianisme Aujourd'hui.
Publications Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle, InterVarsity Press (January 2001)
"The Analogy of Faith in the Study of Scripture," in
La Doctrine du Christ, Vaux-sur-Seine, Edifac (March 2002)
References
External links Lectures by Blocher