Journal of Confessional Bibliology — Scripture Alone, Preserved by Providence

Richard Bentley

Setting: Church of England and early Enlightenment classical scholarship. Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar and textual emender. In response to controversy over John Mill’s variants, he argued that differences among later copies did not threaten...

Theodore Beza

Setting: Genevan Reformed; Calvin’s successor at the Academy and in international Reformed leadership. Theodore Beza was a French classical scholar, Reformed theologian, Genevan pastor, academy leader, and editor of the Greek New Testament. After joining the...

Heinrich Bullinger

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...

John William Burgon

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...