It has been a concern of reformed Reformers not only to capture the reformation of doctrine, but also to clarify the results of the rediscovery of the deliberating word of God for the way of living and shaping of the world. Questions on ethics thus step into the centre of their interest. The word of God has been trusted to have an reformative effect on miscellanious fields of activity in church, society and state. These studies follow an ethic-historical trace that has been left by this clarification exercise. Marco Hofheinz drags the quintessence of reformed-theological theology, the transformative power of the word of God, into consciousness.--publisher's website.