This book explores why it is important to know what Luther and Calvin thought - primarily because the sixteenth-century Reformation began a process of political and intellectual change which not only shapes Europe and Western thoughts as we know it today, but which spread to the 'New World' and has deeply influenced American culture too.

The book is divided into the following chapters: - Luther and Calvin in context - What Luther said - What Calvin said - Arguments about what Luther and Calvin said - How Luther and Calvin shaped the world