We are most grateful to Andrew Pettegree, former lead editor of St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History, for agreeing to publish this volume. It is an honor to have our work appear in such an important series. Thanks are also due to our copy editor, Travis Ables, the assistant editor and copy editor of the Anglican Theological Review, and also to James Stayer of Queen’s University and Clint Schaffer and Grant Henley of Wheaton College for their translation work (chs. 3, 14, and 15). Bernard McGinn was kind enough to share with us portions of his important recent work, Mysticism in the Reformation, before it appeared in print; he also provided helpful comment on the overall shape of our project and spurred us on as we have pursued it. We are grateful to him for his generous counsel and inspiration. We owe a special debt of gratitude to our families for their patience and encouragement as we labored on this project. This volume is dedicated to our respective dissertation advisors, Steven E. Ozment (Rittgers) and Susan E. Schreiner (Evener), both of whom have now retired. It was truly a privilege to train with such fine scholars. We are deeply grateful to them for their guidance, support, and generosity. We hope that this volume, which seeks to rethink the relationship between mysticism and Protestantism in Reformation Europe (and beyond), reflects at least some of the expertise they sought to pass on to us.
Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener
Pentecost 2018, Valparaiso, IN/Gettysburg, PA