Learning from the Past

Jon Balserak is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Religion at the University of Bristol, UK.Richard Snoddy is Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology, UK.

The fourteen essays in this collection are an outstanding tribute to the esteem with which Lane is held by his fellow scholars. The writers are all experts on their topics. Their essays bring new insights through their succinct and clearly written presentations.

• PrefaceJon Balserak, University of Bristol, UK and Richard Snoddy, London School of Theology, UK1. Bernard of Clairvaux: Forerunner to St. Francis?Dennis E. Tamburello, Siena College, USA2. Two Annotated Books from the Library of William Farel Max Engammare, Librairie Droz, Switzerland3. The Freed Will: Can Augustine Teach Us to See Calvin in a New Light?Jason Van Vliet, Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, Canada and Jon Balserak, University of Bristol, UK4. Facing Poland: Calvin’s Polish Correspondence and the Geography of Reformation EuropeRichard A. Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary, USA 5. Re-visiting John Calvin's Hostility Towards French NicodemismJon Balserak, University of Bristol, UK and Richard Snoddy, London School of Theology, UK6. The Protestant Image of the Council of TrentHerman J. Selderhuis, Theological University of Apeldoorn, Netherlands7. Seventeenth-Century French Conversion Narratives: Making Sense of Shifting Confessional AllegiancesKarin Maag, Calvin College, USA8. The Sources of James Ussher’s Patristic Citations on the Intent and Sufficiency of Christ's SatisfactionRichard Snoddy, London School of Theology, UK9. The Westminster Assembly and the Catholicity of the ChurchBob Letham, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UK10. The Blessed and Boundless God: The Legacy of Zanchius and Polanus in the Theology of George SwinnockJ. Stephen Yuille, Grace Community Church, USA 11. Francis Turretin and Jonathan Edwards on ContingencyPaul Helm, King’s College London, UK12. 'Pseudo'Macariu', Fletcher-and-Wesley, and Luke on PentecostMax Turner, London School of Theology, UK13. Soren Kierkegaard as a Reader of Martin LutherRandall C. Zachman, University of Notre Dame, USA14. Lessons for an Evangelical Spirituality from Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas MertonMatthew Knell, London School of Theology, UKBibliographyIndex