by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: English Puritan and Westminster-era Reformed setting. Edward Leigh was an English scholar, parliamentarian, and prolific compiler whose works ranged across theology, history, ethics, and the biblical languages. His Critica Sacra assembled Hebrew and Greek...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Reformed and Lutheran-connected ecclesiastical-text advocacy; institutional affiliations changed across his career. Theodore P. Letis was an American historical theologian and controversial writer on the ecclesiastical text, canon, inspiration, and the rise...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: English Reformed and Westminster Assembly; Presbyterian with later conformity complexities. John Lightfoot was an English clergyman, Westminster Assembly member, Hebraist, commentator, and Cambridge college head. He brought rabbinic and Jewish antiquarian...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Lutheran Reformation; associated with the Augsburg Confession and the Wittenberg reform. Martin Luther was an Augustinian friar, Wittenberg professor, preacher, polemicist, and translator whose controversy over indulgences developed into a broad evangelical...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Lutheran Reformation and authorial circle of the Augsburg Confession. Philip Melanchthon was a Greek scholar, Wittenberg professor, educational reformer, and Luther’s most important academic colleague. He wrote the Loci Communes, drafted the Augsburg...
