People

1400s

  • 1433 โ€” Girolamo Savonarola (๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Forerunner / Proto-Reformer)

  • 1450 โ€” John Colet (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Humanist)

  • 1466 โ€” Erasmus of Rotterdam (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Humanist / Influence only)

  • 1478 โ€” John Standish (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English Reformer)

  • 1483 โ€” Martin Luther (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Lutheran)

  • 1484 โ€” Huldrych Zwingli (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1489 โ€” Thomas Cranmer (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Hybrid / Anglican)

  • 1489 โ€” Guillaume Farel (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1491 โ€” Martin Bucer (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Hybrid / Reformed)

  • 1494 โ€” William Tyndale (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / English Bible)

  • 1497 โ€” Philip Melanchthon (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Lutheran)

  • 1498 โ€” Johannes Oecolampadius (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1499 โ€” Jan ลaski (๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed)

  • 1499 โ€” Peter Martyr Vermigli (๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Reformed)

1500s

  • 1500 โ€” Wolfgang Capito (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Hybrid)

  • 1502 โ€” John Rogers (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Martyr)

  • 1503 โ€” John Hooper (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Martyr)

  • 1504 โ€” Heinrich Bullinger (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1506 โ€” Pierre Viret (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1509 โ€” John Calvin (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1510 โ€” Miles Coverdale (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1511 โ€” Theodore Bibliander (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1513 โ€” Johannes Bugenhagen (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Lutheran)

  • 1514 โ€” John Knox (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1515 โ€” Thomas Becon (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1516 โ€” Simon Grynaeus (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1517 โ€” Myles Huggarde (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English Reformer)

  • 1518 โ€” Johannes Marbach (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1519 โ€” Theodore Beza (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1520 โ€” Jean Crespin (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed / Historian of Martyrs)

  • 1521 โ€” Olevianus Menius (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Lutheran)

  • 1523 โ€” John Parkhurst (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Anglican)

  • 1524 โ€” Jean Morรฉly (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1525 โ€” Immanuel Tremellius (๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Reformed Hebraist)

  • 1527 โ€” Antoine de Chandieu (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed / Huguenot)

  • 1528 โ€” Lambert Daneau (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1530 โ€” Gaspard de Coligny (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed / Huguenot leader)

  • 1533 โ€” John Jewel (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Anglican)

  • 1534 โ€” Zacharias Ursinus (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed / Catechism)

  • 1535 โ€” Niels Hemmingsen (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Lutheran / Reformed sympathizer)

  • 1536 โ€” Caspar Olevianus (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed / Catechism)

  • 1537 โ€” Johannes Piscator (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1538 โ€” Girolamo Zanchi (๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Reformed)

  • 1539 โ€” William Perkins (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1540 โ€” Daniel Tossanus (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1543 โ€” Dudley Fenner (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1544 โ€” Hieronymus Trechsel (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed printer)

  • 1545 โ€” Franciscus Junius the Elder (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1546 โ€” Lucas Osiander (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Lutheran)

  • 1548 โ€” Johannes Polyander (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed)

  • 1549 โ€” Amandus Polanus (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1550 โ€” Bartholomรคus Keckermann (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1551 โ€” William Whitaker (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1554 โ€” Rudolf Gwalther (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed)

  • 1555 โ€” Abraham Scultetus (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1557 โ€” Conrad Vorstius (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / Controversial)

  • 1558 โ€” Johann Heinrich Alsted (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1560 โ€” Franciscus Gomarus (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed)

  • 1561 โ€” Johannes Wtenbogaert (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Arminian / Remonstrant)

  • 1565 โ€” Antonius Walaeus (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed)

  • 1568 โ€” Johannes Bogerman (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / Synod of Dort)

  • 1571 โ€” Gisbertus Voetius (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed)

  • 1589 โ€” Samuel Rutherford (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish Covenanter)

  • 1599 โ€” Francis Turretin (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Reformed / High Orthodoxy)

1600s

  • 1600 โ€” John Owen (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Puritan)

  • 1601 โ€” Richard Baxter (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Moderate Puritan)

  • 1602 โ€” Edward Leigh (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Westminster divine)

  • 1603 โ€” Samuel Maresius (๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Reformed)

  • 1604 โ€” Johannes Hoornbeeck (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / Polemicist)

  • 1605 โ€” George Walker (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Irish divine)

  • 1606 โ€” Paul Tossanus (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed / Heidelberg theologian)

  • 1607 โ€” James Ussher (๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed / Archbishop of Armagh)

  • 1609 โ€” Thomas Goodwin (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Independent)

  • 1610 โ€” Alexander Henderson (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish Covenanter)

  • 1611 โ€” Samuel Rutherford (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish divine)

  • 1612 โ€” John Dury (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช/๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Ecumenical)

  • 1613 โ€” George Gillespie (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Westminster Assembly)

  • 1614 โ€” Anthony Tuckney (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Westminster Assembly)

  • 1615 โ€” John Lightfoot (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Hebraist)

  • 1616 โ€” John Arrowsmith (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Westminster divine)

  • 1617 โ€” Johannes Cocceius (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / Federal theology)

  • 1618 โ€” William Gouge (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1619 โ€” Johann Friedrich Spanheim (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1620 โ€” Andreas Essenius (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed)

  • 1621 โ€” Thomas Shepard (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / New England)

  • 1622 โ€” Edward Reynolds (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Bishop)

  • 1623 โ€” Johann Heinrich Alting (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Reformed)

  • 1625 โ€” Herman Witsius (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / Covenant theology)

  • 1626 โ€” Simon Patrick (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Bishop of Ely)

  • 1627 โ€” Matthew Poole (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Bible commentator)

  • 1628 โ€” Stephen Charnock (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1630 โ€” Francis Roberts (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Puritan)

  • 1632 โ€” John Howe (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1633 โ€” Thomas Manton (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1634 โ€” Wilhelmus ร  Brakel (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / Dutch Further Reformation)

  • 1635 โ€” Increase Mather (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / Colonial Puritan)

  • 1636 โ€” Vincent Alsop (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Nonconformist)

  • 1637 โ€” Cotton Mather (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / Colonial Puritan)

  • 1638 โ€” Thomas Vincent (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1640 โ€” Benjamin Keach (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Particular Baptist)

  • 1642 โ€” David Clarkson (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Puritan)

  • 1643 โ€” Nehemiah Coxe (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Particular Baptist)

  • 1644 โ€” John Flavel (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1646 โ€” John Howe (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed)

  • 1650 โ€” Peter van Mastricht (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Reformed / High Orthodoxy)

  • 1651 โ€” Philip van Limborch (๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Remonstrant / Controversial)

  • 1653 โ€” Theophilus Gale (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Nonconformist)

  • 1654 โ€” James Durham (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish divine)

  • 1656 โ€” Samuel Willard (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / Colonial theologian)

  • 1657 โ€” Andrew Gray (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish preacher)

  • 1659 โ€” Hercules Collins (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Particular Baptist)

  • 1660 โ€” William Bates (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Nonconformist)

  • 1662 โ€” James Renwick (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish Covenanter)

  • 1666 โ€” Thomas Boston (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Marrow controversy)

  • 1670 โ€” Thomas Ridgley (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Dissenting theologian)

  • 1673 โ€” Ebenezer Erskine (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish Seceder)

  • 1674 โ€” Ralph Erskine (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Scottish Seceder)

  • 1681 โ€” Jonathan Edwards (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / Early Enlightenment)

  • 1683 โ€” John Gill (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Particular Baptist)

  • 1693 โ€” Philip Doddridge (๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Reformed / Dissenting Minister)

  • 1697 โ€” Thomas Foxcroft (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / Colonial preacher)

  • 1699 โ€” Ebenezer Pemberton (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Reformed / New England pastor)

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland

  • Huldrych Zwingli (Reformed)

  • Johannes Oecolampadius (Reformed)

  • Heinrich Bullinger (Reformed)

  • Pierre Viret (Reformed)

  • Hieronymus Trechsel (Reformed / Printer)

  • Amandus Polanus (Reformed)

  • Rudolf Gwalther (Reformed)

  • Franciscus Turretin (Reformed)

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany

  • Martin Luther (Lutheran)

  • Philip Melanchthon (Lutheran)

  • Martin Bucer (Hybrid / Reformed)

  • Wolfgang Capito (Hybrid / Reformed)

  • Johannes Marbach (Reformed)

  • Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran)

  • Simon Grynaeus (Reformed)

  • Olevianus Menius (Lutheran)

  • Lucas Osiander (Lutheran)

  • Zacharias Ursinus (Reformed)

  • Caspar Olevianus (Reformed)

  • Johannes Piscator (Reformed)

  • Girolamo Zanchi (Reformed)

  • Daniel Tossanus (Reformed)

  • Bartholomรคus Keckermann (Reformed)

  • Abraham Scultetus (Reformed)

  • Johann Heinrich Alsted (Reformed)

  • Johann Friedrich Spanheim (Reformed)

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France

  • Guillaume Farel (Reformed)

  • John Calvin (Reformed)

  • Theodore Beza (Reformed)

  • Jean Crespin (Reformed / Historian)

  • Jean Morรฉly (Reformed)

  • Antoine de Chandieu (Reformed)

  • Lambert Daneau (Reformed)

  • Gaspard de Coligny (Reformed / Huguenot leader)

  • Daniel Tossanus (Reformed)

  • Franciscus Junius the Elder (Reformed)

  • Samuel Maresius (Reformed)

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง England / Scotland

  • John Standish (English Reformer)

  • John Colet (Humanist)

  • William Tyndale (Reformed)

  • Thomas Cranmer (Hybrid / Anglican)

  • John Rogers (Reformed)

  • John Hooper (Reformed)

  • Miles Coverdale (Reformed)

  • John Knox (Reformed)

  • Thomas Becon (Reformed)

  • Myles Huggarde (English Reformer)

  • John Parkhurst (Anglican)

  • John Jewel (Anglican / Reformed)

  • William Perkins (Reformed)

  • Dudley Fenner (Reformed)

  • William Whitaker (Reformed)

  • Richard Baxter (Reformed / Moderate Puritan)

  • Edward Leigh (Reformed / Westminster divine)

  • George Walker (Reformed)

  • Thomas Goodwin (Reformed / Independent)

  • Alexander Henderson (Reformed / Covenanter)

  • Samuel Rutherford (Reformed)

  • George Gillespie (Reformed / Westminster divine)

  • Anthony Tuckney (Reformed / Westminster divine)

  • John Lightfoot (Reformed / Hebraist)

  • John Arrowsmith (Reformed / Westminster divine)

  • William Gouge (Reformed)

  • Edward Reynolds (Reformed)

  • Simon Patrick (Reformed / Bishop)

  • Matthew Poole (Reformed / Commentator)

  • Stephen Charnock (Reformed)

  • Francis Roberts (Reformed)

  • John Howe (Reformed)

  • Thomas Manton (Reformed)

  • Vincent Alsop (Reformed / Nonconformist)

  • Thomas Vincent (Reformed)

  • David Clarkson (Reformed / Puritan)

  • John Flavel (Reformed)

  • Theophilus Gale (Reformed / Nonconformist)

  • James Durham (Reformed)

  • Andrew Gray (Reformed / Scottish preacher)

  • William Bates (Reformed / Nonconformist)

  • James Renwick (Reformed / Covenanter)

  • Thomas Boston (Reformed)

  • Thomas Ridgley (Reformed / Dissenting theologian)

  • Ebenezer Erskine (Reformed / Scottish Seceder)

  • Ralph Erskine (Reformed / Scottish Seceder)

  • John Gill (Particular Baptist)

  • Benjamin Keach (Particular Baptist)

  • Nehemiah Coxe (Particular Baptist)

  • Hercules Collins (Particular Baptist)

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy

  • Girolamo Savonarola (Forerunner / Proto-Reformer)

  • Peter Martyr Vermigli (Reformed)

  • Immanuel Tremellius (Reformed / Hebraist)

  • Girolamo Zanchi (Reformed)

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands

  • Johannes Polyander (Reformed)

  • Conrad Vorstius (Reformed / Controversial)

  • Franciscus Gomarus (Reformed)

  • Johannes Wtenbogaert (Remonstrant)

  • Antonius Walaeus (Reformed)

  • Johannes Bogerman (Reformed / Synod of Dort)

  • Gisbertus Voetius (Reformed)

  • Johannes Hoornbeeck (Reformed / Polemicist)

  • Johannes Cocceius (Reformed / Federal theology)

  • Andreas Essenius (Reformed)

  • Herman Witsius (Reformed / Covenant theology)

  • Peter van Mastricht (Reformed / High Orthodoxy)

  • Philip van Limborch (Remonstrant)

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland

  • Jan ลaski (Reformed)

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark

  • Niels Hemmingsen (Lutheran / Reformed sympathizer)

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland

  • James Ussher (Reformed / Archbishop)

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States

  • Thomas Shepard (Reformed / New England)

  • Increase Mather (Reformed / Colonial Puritan)

  • Cotton Mather (Reformed / Colonial Puritan)

  • Samuel Willard (Reformed / Colonial theologian)

  • Jonathan Edwards (Reformed / Early Enlightenment)

  • Thomas Foxcroft (Reformed / Colonial preacher)

  • Ebenezer Pemberton (Reformed / New England pastor)

  • Thomas Becon

  • Thomas Boston

  • Thomas Foxcroft

  • Thomas Goodwin

  • Thomas Manton

  • Thomas Ridgley

  • Thomas Shepard

  • Thomas Vincent

  • Vincent Alsop

  • William Bates

  • William Gouge

  • William Perkins

  • William Tyndale

  • William Whitaker

โœ Lutheran

  • Johannes Bugenhagen

  • Lucas Osiander

  • Martin Luther

  • Niels Hemmingsen

  • Olevianus Menius

  • Philip Melanchthon

๐Ÿ” Hybrid / Anglican

  • John Parkhurst

  • Myles Huggarde

  • Thomas Cranmer

๐Ÿ“š Humanist / Proto-Reformer

  • Girolamo Savonarola

  • John Colet

  • John Standish

๐Ÿ“œ Remonstrant

  • Johannes Wtenbogaert

  • Philip van Limborch

๐Ÿชถ Particular Baptists

  • Benjamin Keach

  • Hercules Collins

  • John Gill

  • Nehemiah Coxe

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