by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant Enlightenment university scholarship. Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German orientalist and biblical critic whose introductions helped establish historical-critical study of the Old Testament and later the New Testament. He brought...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Former evangelical Christian; now publicly agnostic, working in secular university scholarship. Bart D. Ehrman is an American scholar of New Testament textual criticism and early Christianity. Trained under Bruce Metzger, he wrote a major study of the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England; Caroline Anglican rather than confessional Presbyterian or Baptist Reformed. John Cosin was an English churchman, liturgical scholar, royalist exile, and later Bishop of Durham. His long Scholastical History of the Canon assembled biblical,...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: American Methodist and university scholarship. Ernest Cadman Colwell was an American New Testament scholar and educational administrator whose essays on scribal habits, manuscript groups, quantitative method, and text-types influenced later criticism....
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Church of England setting; censured controversy over his subordinationist doctrine of the Trinity. Samuel Clarke was an English clergyman, philosopher, and controversial theologian whose Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity arranged biblical propositions in...
