by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England and early Enlightenment classical scholarship. Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar and textual emender. In response to controversy over John Mill’s variants, he argued that differences among later copies did not threaten...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant university scholarship with extensive work in church history, the Christian East, and New Testament textual criticism. Barbara Aland was a German church historian and textual critic who succeeded Kurt Aland as director of the Institute for...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant scholarship; ordained minister and participant in the Confessing Church before becoming a leading institutional editor of the modern critical Greek New Testament. Kurt Aland was a German church historian and New Testament textual critic...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England. Henry Alford was an Anglican clergyman, dean of Canterbury, hymn writer, and author of a widely used Greek Testament commentary. His edition brought nineteenth-century critical decisions into sustained English-language exposition for clergy...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England setting; censured controversy over his subordinationist doctrine of the Trinity. Samuel Clarke was an English clergyman, philosopher, and controversial theologian whose Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity arranged biblical propositions in...