Daniel Gerdes
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Calvinist theologian and historian
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- PhD Theology Princeton Theological Seminary
- Masters Theology Calvin Theological Seminary
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Gerdes was a German Calvinist theologian and historian. He became professor at the University of Duisburg in 1726, and at the University of Groningen in 1736. While broadly supporting Protestant freedom of conscience, Gerdes drew a line in his attacks on the Mennonite minister Johannes Stinstra. In that case Gerdes used the views of Samuel Werenfels, tolerant and well thought of by Benjamin Hoadley, to condemn Stinstra.
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