I. John Hesselink

Ira John Hesselink Jr. was an American theologian, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
An expert in John Calvin, he was Albertus C. Van Raalte Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. After his retirement, he was an honorary professor and continued to write a few books on John Calvin and lecture in Europe, South Korea, and Japan. He was a Dutch American theologian who served as a missionary in Japan after receiving theological education at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He wrote a book on Calvin's Catechism and several books and papers. In his contribution to a book on Calvin in the Cambridge Theologian Series, he wrote a paper on Calvin's theology. He was also president of Karl Barth Society of North America, founded in October 1972 in Toronto by a group of Canadian and American scholars of Karl Barth, inspired by his son Markus Barth.
Hesselink is survived by the family he loved: Etta, his wife of 67 years; five children and two grandchildren: John III, Ann, Jud, Nathan and Greg - all of whom the carry-on his love of knowledge, music and the world at-large.

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