David Steinmetz is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at Duke Divinity School. He is editor of the Oxford Studies in Historical Theology series.

David Steinmetz is one of our most distinguished Reformation historians, with an enviable track record of explaining the complexities of the period with elegant clarity. ... This colelction of essays, mostly light-footnoted, is directed to an American Protestant churchgoing audience, but will much profit many beyond that constituency, including undergraduates beginning to study the period.

• 01 - The Superiority of Pre-critical Exegesis02 - Miss Marple Reads the Bible03 - Inclusive Language and the Trinity04 - Creator God05 - Mary Reconsidered06 - The Catholic Luther07 - Starting Over: Reformation and Conversion08 - Forgiving the Unforgivable Wrong09 - The Domestication of Prophecy10 - The Learned Ministry Revisited11 - Marriage, Celibacy, and Ordination12 - Christ and the Eucharist13 - World Christianity under New Management14 - Religion in the Public Square15 - The Necessity of the Past16 - Taking the Long View17 - Concluding Notes for a Pilgrim People18 - Appendix - Footnotes to an Old Complaint