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Samuel E. Waldron is a Reformed Baptist pastor and theologian who co-founded Reformed Baptist Seminary (now Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary) and has served as its president. He has written extensively on Baptist confessionalism, systematic theology, and eschatology, and is known as a clear expositor of the 1689 London Baptist Confession.

Benjamin B. Warfield (1851–1921) was the last and most formidable of the Princeton theologians, whose rigorous defense of biblical inerrancy set the terms for conservative Reformed discussion of Scripture throughout the twentieth century.

Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was a Puritan minister whose Body of Divinity — an exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism — remains one of the most accessible and devotionally rich introductions to Reformed theology ever written.

David F. Wells (b. 1939) is a South African-born Reformed theologian who taught systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary for over thirty years. His four-volume series beginning with No Place for Truth (1993) offers a searching critique of evangelical accommodation to modernity and a call to recover confessional Reformed theology.

George Whitefield (1714–1770) was the greatest evangelist of the eighteenth century, a Calvinist preacher of unparalleled power who preached an estimated 18,000 sermons on both sides of the Atlantic and was the central figure of the Great Awakening.

Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) was a Free Church of Scotland minister who served for decades at Free St George's in Edinburgh and later became Principal of New College, Edinburgh. Often called "the last of the Puritans," he was known for his searching pulpit ministry and his writings on Puritan spirituality and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.