Work
Building on the legacy of Geerhardus Vos, Kline was an influential voice for Covenant Theology in the Reformed tradition, providing both new insights into Scripture and critical engagement with contemporary biblical scholarship. He is perhaps best known for his contributions on the subject of Suzerain–Vassal treaties, specifically on the relationship of treaties from the 2nd millennium BC to covenants found in the Bible.
Kline is also well known for propounding the framework interpretation of the creation account found in the first chapter of Genesis.
Theologian John Frame has called Kline "the most impressive biblical theologian of my lifetime," adding that Kline's work "is orthodox, yet often original, and it always provides rich analysis of Scripture."
In 2000, a festschrift was published in Kline's honor: Creator Redeemer Consummator: A Festschrift for Meredith G. Kline, ed. H. Griffith and J. R. Muether (Greenville, SC: Reformed Academic Press), featuring scholars (and former students) such as Tremper Longman and Charles Lee Irons.
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“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
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