Exploring a variety of themes, this collection examines the Reformation in relation to key aspects of church organization, belief, sacrament, conversion, relationships with other denominations, theological education, church and state, worship, and issues of resilience and decline.

seeks to reposition its subject in the precise philosophical context to which he belonged, seeking, as he did, for common ground between ecclesiastical biblical presuppositions and the semantic terms central to the Late Antique philosophical Academy.