To this groundbreaking work, originally published by theOxford University Press in the 1980s, the author has added a new preface and two appendices, oneof which consists of extracts from Calvin's Commentaries. The author demonstrates that the English "Puritans, " who he calls "experimental predestinarians, " were followers of John Calvin's successor inGeneva, Theodore Beza, and not of Calvin himself. R. T. Kendall maintains that what became knownas English Calvinism was largely the thought of Beza, not Calvin. His book is an importantclarification of Calvin's position in relation to those who have been regarded as his followers.