David C. Steinmetz is the Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School, Duke University. His major publications include Misericordia Dei: The Theology of Johannes von Staupitz in its Late Medieval Setting (1968); Reformers in the Wings (1981); Staupitz and Luther (1980); Luther in Context (1986); Memory and Mission (1988); and The Bible in the Sixteenth Century (1990).