Practically every Calvinist church created in the sixteenth century adopted a Confession to define its faith and a Discipline to organize its institutions. Glenn sunshine's fresh and solid book is a superb analysis of the disciplines created in France to give a synodical and presbyterial structure to their Reformed churches. This French model was to have tremendous influence throughout the Reformed world. As Sunshine points out, however, many churches within France itself, especially those created and patronized by noblemen, did not fit within the system. This book s one of the earliest major products of a team directed by Bernard Roussel that plans to provide us with critical editions of these Disciplines. It is a major contribution to knowledge that anyone interested in Reformed ecclesiology will want to examine.