Brian C. Brewer
is Professor of Christian Theology at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, where he teaches historical theology of the Reformation. He has researched the liturgical and sacramental theology of the reformers as well as the variety of interactions between magisterial and Anabaptist traditions. He is the author of Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments: A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal (Baker, 2017) and A Pledge of Love: The Anabaptist Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier (Paternoster, 2012). Brewer is currently researching Protestant reforms to Christian worship in the sixteenth century and is editing a handbook on the Anabaptist tradition.
Michael W. Bruening
is Associate Professor of History at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Calvinism’s First Battleground (Springer, 2005) and editor of A Reformation Sourcebook (Toronto, 2017) and Epistolae Petri Vireti (Droz, 2012). He is currently working on a monograph on John Calvin’s evangelical opponents.
Amy Nelson Burnett
is Paula and D.B. Varner University Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation (Oxford, 2019), Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy: A Study in the Circulation of Ideas (Oxford, 2011), and Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and their Message in Basel, 1529–1629 (Oxford, 2006). She is also co-editor with Emidio Campi of The Companion to the Swiss Reformation (Brill, 2016). Her research focuses on the dissemination of the Reformation through print, preaching, correspondence networks, and educational reform.
James K. Farge
is a Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. He is the author of Orthodoxy and Reform in Early Reformation France: The Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris, 1500–1543, and has published four annotated editions of archival texts of the University of Paris in the early sixteenth century and one volume of the Correspondence of Erasmus in the Collected Works of Erasmus series. His latest publication is a two-volume annotated edition of 1200 documents from the Parlement of Paris entitled Religion, Reformation, and Repression in the Reign of Francis I.
Carrie F. Klaus
is Professor of Global French Studies at DePauw University. She is the editor and translator of Jeanne de Jussie, The Short Chronicle (University of Chicago, 2006), and the author of articles on Jussie, Marguerite de Navarre, and eighteenth-century writer and translator Cornélie Wouters. Her current research considers what women’s voices, real and imagined, in the political pamphlets of the Fronde reveal about gender and political authority in seventeenth-century France.
Greta Grace Kroeker
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Erasmus in the Footsteps of Paul (Toronto, 2011) and numerous articles on religious compromise in the Age of Reform. Her current work focuses on the transformation of legal, religious, and cultural attitudes about rape in the sixteenth century.
Barbara Pitkin
is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford University. She is an editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal and author of Calvin, the Bible, and History: Exegesis and Historical Reflection in the Era of Reform (Oxford, forthcoming) and What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin’s Doctrine of Faith in its Exegetical Context (Oxford, 1999). She recently edited Semper Reformanda: Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018). Her current research focuses on early modern views on and uses of the past. She is the immediate past-president of the Calvin Studies Society.
Jonathan Reid
is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Reformation History at East Carolina University. He is author of King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549) and Her Evangelical Network (Leiden: Brill, 2009) and co-editor of Neo-Latin and the Humanities: Essays in Honour of Charles Fantazzi (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014). Since 2011, he has served as Assistant Editor of Explorations in Renaissance Culture. He is writing a monograph on the rise of the Reformed churches in the French cities during the early Reformation and their eventual revolt during the kingdom’s first ‘War of Religion’ (1562–63). With Michael B. Bruening, he is editing several hundred letters from those churches, which have not previously been published in the Calvini opera or other works.
Christoph Strohm
is Professor of Reformation History at Heidelberg University and Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His main areas of research are Calvinism and the relationship between religion and law in early modern history. He is the author of among others Calvinismus und Recht. Weltanschaulich-konfessionelle Aspekte im Werk reformierter Juristen in der Frühen Neuzeit (Tübingen, 2008). He is currently leading a fifteen year funded research project “Correspondence of Theologians in the Southwest of the Holy Roman Empire between 1550 and 1620.”
John L. Thompson
is Professor of Historical Theology and the Gaylen and Susan Byker Professor of Reformed Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of Reading the Bible with the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis that You Can’t Learn from Exegesis Alone (Eerdmans, 2007), and he edited and translated The Reformation Commentary on Scripture, Vol. 1: Genesis 1–11 (InterVarsity, 2012). His current work focuses on the role of conscience in early modern exegesis and on the private poetry of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678).
David M. Whitford
is Professor of Reformation Studies at Baylor University. He is a senior editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal. He is the author of A Reformation Life (Praeger, 2015) and The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era (Ashgate, 2009). He recently edited Martin Luther in Context (Cambridge, 2018). His current work focuses on the history of biblical interpretation and the role of gender in the life and writings of some of the major reformers of the sixteenth century. He is the current president of the Calvin Studies Society.