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Jan van Hembyze

Flemish Calvinist

John Calvin

John Calvin

French theologian

Max Weber

Max Weber

German sociologist

Theodore Beza

Theodore Beza

French theologian

Richard Henry Tawney

British economist

Cyril Lucaris

patriarch of Constantinople

Ames, William

William Ames

English theologian

Hodge, Charles

Charles Hodge

American scholar

Jacobus Revius

Dutch writer

Gisbertus Voetius

Dutch theologian

Calamy, Edmund

Edmund Calamy

British theologian

Antoine Arnauld

French theologian

Louis Maimbourg

French historian

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