Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Looking back. Remembering the Reformation, 1617, 1817, and 1883 : commemoration as an agent of continuity and change / Thomas Albert Howard -- From Gospel to law : the Lutheran Reformation and its impact on legal culture / John Witte Jr. -- Redefining the sacred and the supernatural : how the Protestant Reformation really did disenchant the world / Carlos Eire -- Protestantism and the making of modern science / Peter Harrison -- The Reformation and higher education / Karin Maag -- The Reformation and modernity : explaining the casual nexus / Brad S. Gregory -- Part II. The present. Myth and history in interpreting Protestantism : recent historiographical trends / Matthew Lundin -- Commemorating the Reformation in "post-Christian" Europe? / Herman J. Selderhuis -- What hath Wittenberg to do with Lagos? : sixteenth-century Protestantism and Global South Christianity / Philip Jenkins -- Protestantism comes east : the case of Korea / Sung-Deuk Oak -- Chaotic coherence : sola scriptura and the twentieth-century spread of Christianity / Mark A. Noll -- Part III. Theological considerations. Martin Luther at 500 and the state of global Lutheranism / Sarah Hinlicky Wilson -- Looking ahead by glancing back : John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas on the church / Matthew Levering -- The Reformation and the new ecumenism / Timothy George -- Afterword / Ronald K. Rittgers.