The book focuses on four doctrines recommended to readers as “theological images” which, given their theoretical and practical importance, turn out to be genuine patterns for Reformed Protestantism. The four theological images investigated throughout the book—the image of marriage, the image of worship, the image of God, and the image of Moses (as pointing to salvation)—were extracted from the works of Reformed theologians belonging to the French/French Swiss and the English traditions: Guillaume Farel and Jean Calvin, John Bradford and Richard Hooker respectively. The organizing principle of the book is primarily dogmatic in the sense that the focus was placed on doctrine rather than on other issues, but it also has a historical component since the four theologians selected for the study were approached in a chronological order and some historical facts were mentioned occasionally. While reading the book, the readers will get a reasonable grasp of certain pivotal issues of the Protestant Reformation in England and French-speaking Switzerland as they were presented in some key sixteenth-century documents penned by Farel, Calvin, Bradford, and Hooker.

Corneliu C. Simuţ is professor of historical and systematic theology at Emanuel University of Oradea (Romania) and postdoctoral research fellow in religious studies at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). His recent publications include books and articles on religious secularization, theological radicalism, philosophical idealism, theosophical esotericism, Eastern Orthodox nationalism, and African indigenous religions.