Each chapter in this Companion includes an up-to-date account and analysis of the thought associated with a major Reformation theology figure or movement. The book also focuses on lesser reformers such as Martin Bucer, and on the Catholic and Radical Reformations, as well as the major Protestant reformers.

Deals with historical figures and areas not normally covered in books on this period. Includes particularly good coverage of pre-Reformation thought and of minor figures

David Bagchi, David Steinmetz, Denis R. Janz, Wendy Scase, Thomas A. Fudge, Erika Rummel, Scott H. Hendrix, Sachiko Kusukawa, Robert Kolb, Peter Stephens, Ian Hazlett, Richard A. Muller, Peter Newman Brooks, Carl Trueman, David F. Wright, Werner O. Packull