In 1586, six years after the Book of Concord was published, Lutheran theologian
Jakob Andreae and Calvinist French Reformed theologian Theodore Beza met to
debate the differences between the two confessions. Their debate centered on the
Lord's Supper, the person of Christ, Baptism, art and music in churches, and
predestination. These are the classic issues between these two Protestant confessions,
and this is the classic debate between two leading theologians of the second
generation of the Reformation.
Newly translated into English, Lutheranism vs. Calvinism shows the distinctive
doctrines of Lutheranism and Calvinism and, more generally, shows how to defend the
Christian faith in debate.
Pastors, historians, and educated laity will want to read for themselves how Lutherans
and Calvinists discussed the differences between them in the 16th century in order to
understand what makes their confession of the Christian faith distinctive.