Author Harry Emerson Fosdick delivers a fairly comprehensive anthology of key figures and moments in the Protestant Reformation, though he notes in his Introduction, "To compress within one volume the essential message of the diverse personalities involved in the Reformation forces on the anthologist a very astringent selectivity. What is included here probably none would wish left out, but things left out some may well wish included." Be that as it may, Fosdick's work makes for thoughtful reading, using language that is accessible to anyone familiar with the heightened language and some of the more arcane turns of phrase in the King James version of the Christian Bible.