This AMC panel discusses Christopher Ocker’s The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces, which argues broadly that those who tried to avoid confessional polarization in the Reformation decisively influenced the social and intellectual character of the movement. In the course of its argument, the book reassesses several important areas of the Reformation’s social and intellectual history: Anabaptism, the character and influence of late medieval nominalism, the relationship of Erasmus and “biblical humanism” to scholasticism, and the enduring importance of allegorical thinking among Protestant intellectuals. There is much to debate in this book.Doing so are three prolific scholars. Charlotte Meuthen is Prof. of Ecclesiastical History at Durham and co-editor of Studies in Church History, the annual publication of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Her writing has spanned the Reformation’s intellectual and religious history. Bruce Gordon is Titus Street Prof. of Ecclesiastical History at Yale. His writings focus the Swiss Reformation and the history of the bible. Wim François is Professor of Early Modern Church and Theology at KU Leuven. His work spans the history of Church and theology in the Early Modern Era (1450-1650), the Council of Trent, and Tridentine Catholicism.Megan Cassidy-Welch, Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at ACU’s Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, chairs the session. Chair: Megan Cassidy-Welch (Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University)Discussants:Charlotte Meuthen (School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow) Bruce Gordon (Yale Divinity School)Wim François (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven)Respondent:Christopher Ocker (Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University)