A comprehensive history of the Calvinist movement.

[McNeill] has done a great service in presenting in one volume not only an account of the life and teaching of Calvin but a survey of Calvinism down to our own day....One of the best short accounts of Calvin available, based on a thorough knowledge both of his life and writings and of modern scholarship.-American Historical Review
Will surely remain the standard book on Calvinism for many years to come. It deserves wide currency and careful reading.-Albert C. Outler
McNeill has given us a very good and much needed volume on Reformed Christianity.-Leonard J. Tinterud, Theology Today
A book that will certainly be the historical reference volume on Calvin in the English language for years to come.-Hugh Thomson Kerr, Jr., The Christian Century
A masterful historical portrait of the whole movement of Calvinism.-Union Seminary Quarterly Review
An excellent coverage of Calvinistic thought, its development and its expansion.-Richard Cherok, Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary
Still the best available single volume on Calvin and Calvinism.-William Loyd Allen, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary