1. John Calvin: Studies

2. John Calvin: Texts

3. The English Reformation

4. The International Reformation

• Alister McGrath, A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990) NEW in paperback, $20. A fine study of Calvin and of the movement he started. Start here.
  
  
• T.H.L. Parker, Calvin: An Introduction to His Thought (Nashville: Westminster John Knox, 1995) NEW in paperback, $18. A fine introduction to Calvin’s theology by one of his best contemporary biographers. See also Parker’s companion volume, John Calvin: A Biography (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox, 1976; reprint: Lion Publishing), paperback, $8.
  
  
• William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: a Sixteenth Century Portrait (New York: Oxford, 1988) paperback, $10. More a study of Calvin’s psyche and worldview than of his life or theology; subtle but insightful.
  
  
• Alexandre Ganoczy, The Young Calvin, trans. David Foxgrover and Wade Provo (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987) out of print. This highly acclaimed study traces out Calvin’s road to evangelical Christianity and to the reform in Geneva.
  
  
• Serene Jones, Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety, Columbia Series in Reformed Theology (Nashville: Westminster John Knox, 1995), hardcover, $18. NEW
• Kilian McDonnell, John Calvin, the Church, and the Eucharist (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967).
• John T. McNeill, The History and Character of Calvinism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954) paperback, $12. Dated, but a classic study of the international influence of Calvin.
• T.H.L. Parker, Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, 2^nd edition (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993), paperback, $18.
• T.H.L. Parker, Calvin’s Old Testament Commentaries (Louisville, KY; Westminster John Knox, 1993), paperback, $18.
• T.H.L. Parker, Calvin’s Preaching (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1992) paperback, $18.
• Andrew Pettegree, Alastair Duke, & Gillian Lewis, ed., Calvinism in Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 199_ ) hardcover, $60.
• W. Stanford Reid, John Calvin: His Influence in the Western World (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing, 1982).
• Lucien Richard, The Spirituality of John Calvin (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1975).
• David C. Steinmetz, Calvin in Context (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), hardcover, $45. NEW.
• Dennis E. Tamburello, Union With Christ : John Calvin and the Mysticism of St. Bernard, Columbia Series in Reformed Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1994), hardcover, $19.
• François Wendel, Calvin: Origins and Development of His Religious Thought (New York: Harper & Row, 1963; reprint: Durham: Labyrinth Press, 1987) paperback, $18. Dated, but a classic one-volume treatment of Calvin’s thought.

• John T. McNeill, ed., Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 vol., Library of Christian Classics (Nashville: Westminster John Knox, 1960) hardback, $40 for the two volumes. The Institutes is the summa of Protestantism. And the translation by Ford Lewis Battles is widely acclaimed as the standard.
  
  
• Wulfert DeGreef, Lyle D. Bierma, trans., The Writings of John Calvin : An Introductory Guide (Baker Book House, 1993), paperback, $20.
  
  
• John Dillenberger, ed., John Calvin: Selections from His Writings (New York: Anchor Books, 19__) paperback, $15. A fine anthology. It includes autobiographical materials and letters, lengthy excerpts from the Institutes, ordinances from the Geneva church, and the classic Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper.
  
  
• John C. Olin, ed., A Reformation Debate: John Calvin and Jacopo Sadoleto (New York: Harper & Row, 1966; reprint: Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976) paperback, $7. One of the classic confrontations: between Sadoleto, a Catholic reformer and bishop of Geneva, and Calvin, the Protestant spokesman.
  
  
• J.K.S. Reid, ed., Calvin: Theological Treatises, Library of Christian Classics (Philadelphia: Westminster, 19__) out of print.
• Joseph Haroutunian, ed., Calvin: Commentaries, Library of Christian Classics, vol. 23 (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1958) out of print

• Arthur G. Dickens, The English Reformation, rev. ed. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991 / 1^st edition, 1964) paperback, $21. The classic survey of the English experience. A massive study, detailed and carefully nuanced.
  
  
• G.R. Elton, Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 19__) paperback, $20. An excellent, though detailed analysis of the twists and turns of the English Reformation. Elton focuses especially on the intricacies of the legal maneuvering of Cromwell and the Reformation Parliament.
  
  
• Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400-c.1580 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992) NEW in paperback, $18. Widely acclaimed revisionist view.
  
  
• Gerald Bray, ed., Documents of the English Reformation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994). NEW. A valuable collection of documents.
  
  
• David Daniell, William Tyndale: a Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 19__) NEW.
• G.R. Elton, Policy and Police: the Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell (New York: Cambridge University Press, 19__).
• Ian Green, The Christian’s ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England c.1530-1740 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) hardcover, NEW.
• John N. King, English Reformation Literature, the Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), hardcover, $80.
• Christopher Haigh, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (New York: Oxford University Press, 19__) NEW in paperback, $20.
• Peter Marshall, The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1994) hardcover, $55. NEW.
• James McConica, English Humanists and Reformation Politics under Henry VIII and Edward VI (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).
• J.J. Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People (London: Blackwell, 1985) NEW in paperback, $20.
• J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (Berkeley: University of California, 19__) paperback, $15. An exhaustive biography of the man whose dynastic anxieties (and thus many wives) help spark the English reformation.
• Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Belief in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, Scribners.
• Carl R. Trueman, Luther’s Legacy: Salvation and English Reformers, 1525-1556 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) hardcover, $55.

• Barbara B. Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth Century Paris (New York: Oxford University Press, 19__) NEW in paperback, $20.
• Frederic J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century (St. Martin’s Press, 1995), paperback, $19.