John L. Girardeau (1825–1898) served as a minister before and after the Civil War and as a military chaplain during the war. In 1875, he was called to the position of professor of
didactic and polemic theology at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Richard A. Muller is a scholar in residence at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, a senior fellow for the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research, and P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology Emeritus at Calvin Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous books, including Divine Will and Human Choice, Grace and Freedom, and the multivolume Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics.
