Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-258) and index.

Approaches to post-Reformation Protestantism : reframing the historiographical question -- Scholasticism and Orthodoxy in the reformed tradition : definition and method -- Ad fontes argumentorum : the sources of reformed theology in the seventeenth century -- Calvin and the "Calvinists" : assessing continuities and discontinuities between the Reformation and Orthodoxy. Part I -- Calvin and "Calvinists" : assessing continuities and discontinuities between the Reformation and Orthodoxy. Part II -- Calling, character, piety, and learning : paradigms for theological education in the era of Protestant Orthodoxy -- Vera philosophia cum sacra theologia nusquam pugnat : Keckermann on philosophy, theology, and the problem of double truth -- Scholasticism Protestant and Catholic : Francis Turretin on the object and principles of theology -- The debate over the vowel points and the crisis in Orthodox hermeneutics -- Henry Ainsworth and the development of Protestant exegesis in the early seventeenth century -- The covenant of works and the stability of divine law in seventeenth-century Reformed Orthodoxy : a study in the theology of Herman Witsius and Wilhelmus à Brakel.