John Bolt is an American-Dutch Reformed theologian. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[1] He is the author and editor of several books. He edited Herman Bavinck's Gereformeerde Dogmatiek into English as Reformed Dogmatics.[2] Bavinck influenced him into theological method.[3]
John Bolt was born in 1947 in Grootegast, the Netherlands; immigrated to Canada at the age of three; and grew up in Ladner, a suburb south of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[4] John Bolt did his undergraduate work at Simon Fraser University and Calvin College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970. From Calvin Theological Seminary, he achieved a bachelor's degree in Theology in 1973 and a Master of Theology Degree in 1977. He completed his Ph.D. in Theology at University of St. Michael's College, in Toronto, in 1982.