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Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995) was a Reformed philosopher and apologist who studied under Cornelius Van Til and became the foremost exponent of presuppositional apologetics. His work Always Ready and his famous debate with atheist Gordon Stein helped popularize Van Tillian apologetics for a new generation.

Richard J. Bauckham (b. 1946) is a British New Testament scholar and historical theologian who taught at the University of St Andrews and is an emeritus professor at Cambridge. His Jesus and the Eyewitnesses is regarded as a landmark contribution to historical Jesus scholarship, and his work on biblical theology and the Book of Revelation is widely influential across Reformed and evangelical circles.

Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was the greatest Dutch Reformed theologian of his generation, whose four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is now widely recognized as one of the greatest works of systematic theology ever written.

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was the most prolific Puritan practical theologian, whose Reformed Pastor transformed how generations of ministers understood their calling and whose Saints' Everlasting Rest remains a devotional classic.

Gilbert Beebe (1800–1881) was an American Primitive Baptist minister and editor who founded and edited The Signs of the Times newspaper for nearly fifty years, making it the most influential periodical in the Primitive Baptist movement. A thoroughgoing Calvinist, he defended particular redemption and absolute predestination against all forms of Arminianism and "missionary" Baptist practice.

Joel R. Beeke is President of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a pastor of Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation. A prolific author and editor of hundreds of books on Reformed and Puritan theology, he has done more than almost anyone in the contemporary church to recover the spiritual riches of the Puritan tradition for modern readers.

Theodore Beza (1519–1605) was a French Reformed theologian and scholar who joined Calvin in Geneva in 1548, served as rector of the Geneva Academy, and succeeded Calvin as the leading pastor of Geneva. He made lasting contributions through his critical work on the Greek New Testament, his biography of Calvin, and his defense of Calvinist orthodoxy.

Loraine Boettner (1901–1990) was an American Reformed theologian best known for The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, one of the most comprehensive popular defenses of Calvinist soteriology ever written in English.

James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000) was a Reformed theologian and senior minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1968 until his death. A founding member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and chairman of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, he authored more than fifty books and was widely influential in defending expository preaching and biblical inerrancy within American evangelicalism.

Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) was a Scottish minister and hymn-writer whose prolific output of devotional books, Bible commentaries, and hymns earned him the title "Prince of Scottish Hymn Writers." His God's Way of Peace and God's Way of Holiness remain classic evangelical treatments of justification and sanctification.

Thomas Boston (1676–1732) was a Scottish minister whose Human Nature in Its Fourfold State and role in the Marrow Controversy made him one of the most beloved and theologically significant figures in the history of the Church of Scotland.

E. M. Bounds (1835–1913) was an American Methodist minister and Civil War chaplain who devoted the last seventeen years of his life entirely to prayer and writing. His nine books on prayer — especially Power Through Prayer and Purpose in Prayer — are regarded as the most thorough and earnest devotional treatments of prayer in the English language.

Charles Bridges (1794–1869) was an Anglican evangelical minister and a leading voice in the Church of England's Evangelical Party. He is best remembered for his 1829 treatise The Christian Ministry and for his widely-used expository commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Psalm 119.

John A. Broadus (1827–1895) was a Baptist minister, co-founder of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and its professor of New Testament and homiletics from 1859. Charles Spurgeon called him "the greatest of living preachers," and his On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870) became a standard homiletics textbook used across denominational lines for over a century.

Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) was a Puritan preacher in London whose practical and devotional writings are among the most readable in the Puritan corpus. His Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices is a masterpiece of spiritual warfare literature, and Heaven on Earth remains a classic treatment of Christian assurance.

John Brown of Haddington (1722–1787) was a Scottish minister, self-taught biblical scholar, and Professor of Divinity for the Secession Church. His Self-Interpreting Bible, Dictionary of the Holy Bible, and commentary on the New Testament made him one of the most widely read Scottish theological writers of the eighteenth century.

James Buchanan (1804–1870) was a Scottish Free Church theologian who taught at New College, Edinburgh. His work The Doctrine of Justification (1867) is widely regarded as the most comprehensive historical and doctrinal study of justification by faith in the English language.

John Bunyan (1628–1688) was a Nonconformist tinker and preacher whose Pilgrim's Progress — written during imprisonment for unauthorized preaching — is, after the Bible, the most published and translated book in the history of Christianity.