Nine leading scholars in the fields of the theology of the Reformers, the Reformation itself, and the scholastic theology of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries offer papers as a tribute to the work of Heiko Augustinus Oberman on the philosophical and theological issues of the late medieval and early modern periods.

Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Ph.D. (1968) in History, University of Chicago, is Peder Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published on the political and social history of Reformation Germany, including Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489 -1553) and the German Reformation at Strasbourg (1995).
Katherine G. Brady, MA (1961) in Religion, Columbia University, lives in Berkeley. She has edited original sources of the sixteenth century and is the co-editor of the Handbook of European History, 1400-1600 in 2 volumes (1994-95).
Susan G. Karant-Nunn, Ph.D. (1971) in History, lndiana University, is Director of the Division of Late Middle Ages and Reformation, University of Arizona. She has published on the social and cultural history of Reformation Germany, including The Reformation of Ritual: An lnterpretation of Early Modern Germany (1997).
James D. Tracy, Ph.D. (1967) in History, Princeton University, is the current holder of the Union Pacific Chair in Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota. He has published on Erasmus, and on the political and fiscal history of the Low Countries, and is editor of The Journal of Early Modern History.