by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
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...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Swiss Reformed; successor to Zwingli at Zürich and principal author of the Second Helvetic Confession. Heinrich Bullinger succeeded Zwingli as chief pastor in Zürich and became one of the most widely connected leaders of the Reformed churches. Through...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
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...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
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...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
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...
