Richard Gaffin

Richard B. Gaffin Jr. (born July 7, 1936) is an American Calvinist theologian, Presbyterian minister, and professor emeritus at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He held the Charles Krahe Chair of Biblical and Systematic Theology from 1999 to 2008, and has been Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Systematic Theology since 2008. He is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Reformed biblical theologians of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and has taught at Westminster since 1965.

A son of Orthodox Presbyterian Church missionaries to China and Taiwan, Gaffin's scholarly work has centered on building upon the redemptive-historical biblical theology of Geerhardus Vos and applying it to Pauline soteriology, eschatology, and the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. His 1969 doctoral dissertation, published as Resurrection and Redemption, is considered a landmark contribution to the study of Paul's theology.