Development of Reformed Orthodoxy

...the product of a tradition of debate and formulation, shaped by a late Renaissance academic culture, by the ongoing religious, social, and political encounter between Protestants and Catholic and by the daily life of religion and piety of which even the most "academic" of its professors were a part.

 

Richard Muller, After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition (Oxford University Press: New York, 2003), pg 44