Notes on Contributors
A.J. (Andreas) Beck (1965), Ph.D. (2007) Utrecht University, is Professor of Historical Theology and Academic Dean at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, and the director of the Institute of Post-Reformation Studies there. He is the author of Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676). Sein Theologieverständnis und seine Gotteslehre (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007), and author or co-editor of numerous articles and volumes on medieval and early modern history, theology and philosophy. Recently, he edited Melanchthon und die reformierte Tradition (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016). Since June 2014, he serves as chair of the research group Classic Reformed Theology.
H. (Henk) van den Belt (1971), Ph.D. (2006) Leiden University, is Professor of Systematic Theology at the VU University, Amsterdam. He is the author of The Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology: Truth and Trust (Brill, 2008) and of several articles on Reformed Orthodoxy and on neocalvinism; he edited Restoration through Redemption: John Calvin Revisited (Brill, 2013) and the second volume of the Synopsis of Purer Theology (Brill, 2016).
W.A. (William) den Boer (1977), Ph.D. (2008) Theological University Apeldoorn, Postdoctoral researcher at the Theological University Kampen. He is author of God’s Twofold Love. The Theology of Jacob Arminius (1559–1609) (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010), and author or editor of several books and articles on church history and historical theology.
S. (Simon) J.G. Burton (1983), Ph.D. (2011) University of Edinburgh, is John Laing Senior Lecturer in Reformation History at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Hallowing of Logic: The Trinitarian Method of Richard Baxter’s Methodus Theologiae (Brill, 2012), and has published a number of articles and book chapters on late medieval and Reformed scholasticism.
R.A. (Riemer) Faber (1961), Ph.D. (1992) University of Toronto. He is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include Greek and Latin philology and literary criticism, and neo-Latin, and he has published widely in these fields. He serves as deputy editor of the Collected Works of Erasmus, in which series he published Erasmus’ Annotations on Galatians and Ephesians (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
P.J. (Philip) Fisk (1959), Ph.D. (2015) Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, where he is Senior Researcher and lecturer in Historical Theology. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards’s Turn from the Classic-Reformed Tradition of Freedom of the Will, New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies 2 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), and has published peer-reviewed articles and contributed book chapters on issues pertaining to Reformed Orthodoxy, Jonathan Edwards, and the Reformed-scholastic backdrop to the Harvard and Yale curricula.
H. (Harm) Goris (1960), Ph.D. (1996) Catholic Theological University Utrecht, is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the School of Catholic Theology of Tilburg University and member of the Thomas Institute at Utrecht. His research focuses on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Recently he co-edited The Virtuous Life: Thomas Aquinas on the Theological Nature of Moral Virtues (Leuven: Peeters, 2017).
J. (Jeannette) Kreijkes-van Esch (1983), MA (2006) Greek and Latin Language and Culture, Leiden University, teaches Latin and Greek at a secondary school. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in the fields of Reformed Theology and Patristic Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Her current research project focuses on John Calvin’s exegetical use of John Chrysostom.
C.J. (Kees Jan) van Linden (1967), MA (Classical Studies, 1991) Leiden University. He is a Latin and Greek teacher at a secondary school in Kampen. He is preparing a dissertation on the Statenvertaling (1637) as a translation project in the context of seventeenth-century Europe. His fields of interest are linguistics, translation and hermeneutics. He served as a Bible translation coordinator in Guinea (W-Africa) from 2000 to 2012.
M. (Matthias) Mangold (1986), MA (2013) Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, is a Ph.D. candidate and a Research Assistant at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven. His current research project focuses on Salomon van Til (1643–1713), a Dutch Reformed theologian in the time of the early Enlightenment.
C.A. (Kees) de Niet (1955), MA (Dutch Language and Literature, 1979) Leiden University; MA (Greek and Latin Languages and Culture, 1986) Leiden University; PhD. (1996), Utrecht University. He was a Latin and Greek teacher at a secondary school in Amersfoort till 2020. He is the editor of Gisbertus Voetius, De praktijk der godzaligheid (ΤΑ ΑΣΚΗΤΙΚΑ sive Exercitia pietatis—1664); tekstuitgave met inleiding vertaling en commentaar (De Banier, 1996) and author of several articles on the life and works of Gisbertus Voetius.
P.L. (Pieter) Rouwendal (1973), Ph.D. (2017) VU Amsterdam on Predestination and Preaching in Genevan Theology, From Calvin to Pictet. He is publisher at Summum Academic Publications, Associate Researcher at TU Kampen and the (co-)author of several books and articles on church history and historical theology, including “Calvin’s Forgotten Classical Position on the Extent of the Atonement: About Sufficiency, Efficiency and Anachronism” (Westminster Theological Journal, 2008), and Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism (Reformation Heritage Books, 2011).
R.T. (Dolf) te Velde (1974), Ph.D. (2010) Theological University Kampen, currently Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at that university, and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven. He is the author of The Doctrine of God in Reformed Orthodoxy, Karl Barth, and the Utrecht School (Brill, 2013), and of several articles on systematic and historical theology. He co-edited Reformed Thought on Freedom (Baker Academic, 2010), and is the volume-editor of vol. 1 of the present Synopsis-edition (2014).
A. (Antonie) Vos (1944), Ph.D. (1981) Utrecht University, emeritus Professor at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven. He has (co-)published widely in philosophy, the history of medieval philosophy, systematic theology and the historical theology from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, including Contingency and Freedom (Springer, 1994), Duns Scotus on Divine Love (Ashgate, 2003), The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), The Theology of John Duns Scotus (Brill, 2018), and John Duns Scotus: A Life (Summum Academic, 2018).