Journal of Confessional Bibliology — Scripture Alone, Preserved by Providence

John William Burgon

Setting: Nineteenth-century high-church Anglican; not a Westminster or Second London Baptist confessional theologian. John William Burgon was an Anglican clergyman, Oxford scholar, Dean of Chichester, and the most famous nineteenth-century critic of the Revised...

Johannes Buxtorf the Elder

Setting: Swiss Reformed orthodoxy at Basel. Johannes Buxtorf the Elder was the leading Basel Hebraist of his generation. He taught Hebrew for decades, produced grammars, lexicons, concordance work, and studies of Jewish life, and established a scholarly programme...

Johannes Buxtorf the Younger

Setting: Swiss Reformed orthodoxy at Basel. Johannes Buxtorf the Younger succeeded his father in Hebrew at Basel, edited and expanded parts of the Buxtorf scholarly legacy, and became a principal defender of the traditional view of Hebrew vowel points. His controversy...

John Calvin

Setting: Genevan and international Reformed churches. John Calvin was a French humanist-trained jurist, Reformed theologian, pastor, commentator, and organizer of the Genevan church. The first Institutes appeared in 1536 and expanded through the definitive Latin and...

Theodore Beza

Setting: Genevan Reformed; Calvin’s successor at the Academy and in international Reformed leadership. Theodore Beza was a French classical scholar, Reformed theologian, Genevan pastor, academy leader, and editor of the Greek New Testament. After joining the...