R. Ward Holder is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). After teaching at Boston College and Stonehill College, he settled at Saint Anselm College, where he is presently associate professor of theology. He has authored John Calvin and the Grounding of Biblical Interpretation: Calvin’s First Commentaries, Brill, 2006; and Crisis and Renewal:The Era of the Reformations, Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. He has edited Reformation Readings of Romans, with Kathy Ehrensperger, T. & T. Clark, 2008; and A Companion to Paul in the Reformation, Brill, 2009. He presently serves as vice president of the Calvin Studies Society, the largest North American academic society devoted to the life and thought of John Calvin.