by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Swiss Reformed origins; removed from ministry amid doctrinal controversy and later taught among the Remonstrants at Amsterdam. Johann Jakob Wettstein was a Swiss-born scholar and manuscript collator whose Amsterdam Greek New Testament offered an extensive...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Excommunicated from the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam; developed a rationalist philosophical system outside Christian confession. Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Jewish background whose Theological-Political Treatise became a...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: American Reformed Baptist apologetics. James R. White is an American Reformed Baptist apologist, debater, author, and director of Alpha and Omega Ministries. He has taught and debated textual criticism, Bible translation, the King James Version, Roman...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant church and university scholarship. Holger Strutwolf is a German Protestant theologian specializing in patristics and New Testament textual criticism. After pastoral service he returned to Münster in 2004 as professor and director of the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: British evangelical scholarship. Peter J. Williams is a British biblical scholar and principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He served as associate editor of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament and on the ESV Translation Oversight Committee and writes widely...
