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Essays in honor of Richard A. Muller, these essays seek to properly contextualize Protestant theology of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras in relation to both church and school.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The dogma is not necessarily the drama / Carl R. Trueman -- Justification by faith alone: Martin Luther among the early Anglicans / David C. Steinmetz -- Philip Melanchthon and Wittenberg's reform of the theological curriculum / Timothy J. Wengert -- Academic heresy, the Reuchlin affair, and the control of theological discourse in the early sixteenth century / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Influences in Luther's reforms / Fred P. Hall -- Pastoral education in the Wittenberg way / Robert Kolb -- François Lambert d'Avignon (ca. 1487-1530): early ecclesial reform and training for the ministry at Marburg / Theodore G. Van Raalte -- The idea of a 'general grace of God' in some sixteenth-century Reformed theologians other than Calvin / J. Mark Beach -- Calvin's reception and reformulation of the necessitarian concepts of the early Reformation on human will, providence, and predestination / Kiven S.K. Choy -- The duplex gratia Dei and the organization of Calvin's Institutes: ordo docendi or ordo salutis? / Cornelis P. Venema -- Calvin's hermeneutics of the imprecations of the Psalter / Paul Mpindi -- The Italian convert: Marquis Galeazzo Caracciolo and the English Puritans / Emidio Campi -- Confluence and influence: Peter Martyr Vermigli and Thomas Aquinas on predestination / Frank A. James III -- Peter Martyr Vermigli, scholasticism, and Aquinas' justice of war doctrine / Mark J. Larson -- Moral philosophy and moral theology in Vermigli / Sebastian Rehnman -- Word and Spirit in the piety of Peter Martyr Vermigli as seen in his commentary on 1 Corinthians / Jason Zuidema -- The man in the black hat: Theodore Beza and the reorientation of early Reformed historiography / Raymond A. Blacketer -- From professors to pastors: the convoluted careers of Jean Diodati and Théodore Tronchin / Karin Maag -- Swiss students and faculty at the University of Heidelberg, 1518-1622 / Charles D. Gunnoe Jr. -- Johannes Piscator's (1546-1625) interpretation of Calvin's Institutes / Heer Carlos de Campos Jr. -- The academization of Reformation teaching in Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638) / Byung Soo Han -- Theology and piety in Ursinus' Summa theologiae / Lyle D. Bierma -- Law and gospel in early Reformed orthodoxy: hermeneutical conservatisim in Olevianus' commentary on Romans / R. Scott Clark -- Laurence Chaderton: an early Puritan vision for church and school / Joel R. Beeke -- The Danzig Academic Gymnasium in seventeenth-century Poland / Dariusz M. Bryćko -- Arminius on Facientibus quod in se est and likely medieval sources / J.V. Fesko -- Bona conscientia paradisus: an Augustinian-Arminian trope / Keith D. Stanglin -- A promise for parents: Dordt's perspective on covenant and election / W. Robert Godfrey -- Type, anti-type, and the sensus literalis: Protestant Reformed orthodox approaches to Psalm 2 / Todd Rester -- The Holy Spirit and the church's mission: the perspective of the Reformed confessions / Yuzo Adhinarta -- The attempt to establish a chair in practical theology at Leiden University (1618-1626) / Donald Sinnema -- Theologia practica: the diverse meanings of a subject of early modern academic writing / Aza Goudriaan -- Lumina, non numina: patristic authority according to Lutheran arch-theologian Johann Gerhard / Benjamin T.G. Mayes -- The logic of the heart: analyzing the affections in early Reformed orthodoxy / David S. Sytsma -- Reformed education from Geneva through the Netherlands to the East Indies / Yudha Thianto -- 'A grievous sin': Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) and his anti-Lombard polemic / Willem J. van Asselt -- Voetius on the subject and formal act of happiness: a scholastic exercise / Andreas J. Beck -- Revealing the mind of God: exegetical method in the seventeenth century / Henry M. Knapp -- Reason run amok? The Protestant orthodox charge of rationalism against Faustus Socinus (with special consideration of a 'smoking gun' passage from De Jesu Christo servatore) / Alan W. Gomes -- Johannes Cocceius as federal polemicist: the usefulness of the distinction between the testaments / Brian J. Lee -- 'A smattering of the new philosophy': Étienne Gaussen (ca. 1638-1675) and the Cartesian question at Saumur / Albert Gootjes -- Nonconformist schools, the Schism Act, and the limits of toleration in England's confessional state / James E. Bradley -- Piety, theology, exegesis, and tradition: Anna Maria van Schurman's 'elaboration' of Genesis 1-3 and its relationship to the commentary tradition / John L. Thompson -- John Howe (1630-1705) on divine simplicity: a debate over Spinozism / Reita Yazawa -- Orthodoxy, scholasticism, and piety in the seventeenth-century further Reformation: Simon Oomius / Gregory D. Schuringa -- Mylius on Elleboogius: a fatal misinterpretation / Godfried Quaedtvlieg -- The shape of Reformed orthodoxy in the seventeenth century: the soteriological debate between George Kendall and Richard Baxter / Jordan J. Ballor -- G.W. Leibniz and Protestant scholasticism in the years 1698-1704 / Irena Backus -- The uniqueness of Christ in post-Reformation Reformed theology: from Francis Turretin to Jean-Alphonse Turretin / Martin I. Klauber -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) and the nature of theology / Adriaan C. Neele -- Calvinism as Reformed Protestantism: clarification of a term / Herman Selderhuis -- Reconsidering the Platonism of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) and its role in his thought on the education of artists / Nathan A. Jacobs -- The Bristol Academy and the education of ministers in eighteenth-century England (1758-1791) / Jeongmo Yoo -- Bibliography of the works of Richard A. Muller / compiled by Paul W. Fields and Andrew M. McGinnis.