by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Genevan Reformed orthodoxy and the Formula Consensus Helvetica era. Francis Turretin was a Genevan pastor, professor, and leading representative of high Reformed orthodoxy. His Institutio Theologiae Elencticae arranged theology through disputed questions and...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Early English Reformation with Lutheran and emerging Reformed connections. William Tyndale was the chief formative translator of the English Bible before the Authorized Version. Educated at Oxford and associated with Cambridge reform circles, he left England...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Reformed Church of Ireland and British Reformed orthodoxy. James Ussher was an Irish churchman, scholar, Archbishop of Armagh, and one of the most learned figures of the British Reformed world. He worked in theology, patristics, chronology, canon history, and...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Dutch confessional Reformed scholarship. Jakob van Bruggen was a Dutch Reformed New Testament scholar, professor at the Theological University in Kampen, commentator, and author on canon, exegesis, and textual questions. His The Ancient Text of the New...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Elizabethan Reformed Church of England; major anti-Roman controversial theologian. William Whitaker was a Cambridge theologian and one of the foremost English Protestant controversialists of the late sixteenth century. As Regius Professor of Divinity and...