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: 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...
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: 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; 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...
