by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
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...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: French humanism; later Genevan Reformed adherence. Robert Estienne, commonly called Stephanus in Latin, was a Parisian printer-scholar and later Genevan Protestant. He issued four Greek New Testaments in 1546, 1549, 1550, and 1551. The 1550 folio supplied a...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Elizabethan Reformed Church of England. William Fulke was an English theologian, Cambridge college head, and prolific defender of the Protestant Bible against Roman Catholic controversialists. His works answer claims for the Vulgate, defend Protestant...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Swiss Réveil and confessional Reformed resistance to rationalism. Louis Gaussen was a Genevan Reformed pastor, teacher, and leader in the nineteenth-century Réveil. Conflict with rationalizing ecclesiastical authorities led to his removal and later work in...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: English Particular Baptist, firmly within the Second London Baptist Confession tradition. John Gill was a Particular Baptist pastor in London, Hebrew scholar, commentator, and systematic theologian. He served the congregation later associated with Charles...
