Willem Geesink

[1] He served as professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 1890 to 1926, and was rector magnificus four times.

Geesink was by training a church historian, but taught philosophy, ethics, elenctics, and New Testament exegesis as well.

[2] Arie van Deursen notes that "as a philosopher he was simply in over his head," and wrote mainly in the field of theological ethics.

[2] Hans Schaeffer summarises his thought as follows:[3] The sovereign God created a moral world-order, which He imposes on the spiritual as well as on the natural world.

For the spiritual world – which is the moral one – God's ordinances are his commandments.