Henry Bullinger was a pioneer Reformer who, like his contemporary Martin Bucer, has long remained in the shadows cast by Martin Luther and John Calvin. Happily, modern scholarship is revealing both Bucer and Bullinger to have been top rank Reformers in no way secondary to Luther and Calvin. Indeed, modern research shows that Bullinger was a more thorough and consistent Reformer than both Luther and …
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Henry Bullinger
Sep 15
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575)
Aug 17
Shepherd of the Churches
Bullinger’s importance for the English Reformation
Perhaps no Reformer has been so neglected in modern times as Henry Bullinger, though he produced far more sound Christian writings than Luther, Calvin and Zwingli combined. An average of four editions of his works per year were printed in Switzerland alone for a hundred years and over fifty printers in other European countries were …
Heinrich Bullinger (1504-75) and the Catabaptists:
An examination of Alleged Roots of Present Day Baptists
A brief look at the meaning of ‘Catabaptist’.
Most Baptists nowadays look upon the Swiss Catabaptists or Anabaptists of the 1520s as being the forerunners of the British Baptists who are, in turn, seen as the founders of the American Baptist churches. This argument is far from …
… of the Institutes, Calvin takes over Zwingli’s stand. In the Consensus Tigurinus, he follows Bullinger. In his later works and church order, he reproduces Martin Bucer’s work down to headings and subheadings. On the Lord’s Supper, Calvin retracted from a Reformed stance to a quasi-Lutheran outlook. On the doctrines of grace, he left his former Hyper-Calvinism for a less severe, unclear position. Though we honour Calvin for his ability to reap the best from other men’s works, he …
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… Cartwright’s neo-legalism sprang from his Heidelberg days plotting with those who felt Luther, Bullinger and Calvin were too forbearing. This theology-less sect created a religion of order, discipline and case-law which shattered the German churches. Cartwright planted this splitter-bomb in England.
Hooker was preferred to Travers as Master of the Temple, so Travers condemned Hooker and the Church of England in his lectures. Though not a Church of England minister, he pressed …
Clifford on Schism
Oct 24
… later at Dort. This was especially the position of England’s major Continental advisers, Bullinger, Gualter, Beza and Calvin. The break-up of the Church of England was not through the desires of her Reformed/Puritan members of Calvin’s day but through the tyrannical outlawing of the Church a century later by military usurpers who denounced the rule of the Church by the Church (Convocation) and made their ‘Model Church’ a puppet of their ‘Model Parliament’. This reversed the …
… as a basis for Puritan teaching. Reformers such as Jewel, Lever, Latimer, Coverdale, Cox, Grindal, Bullinger, Bucer and Peter Martyr, pillars of the Church of England, were most strong on doctrine, especially concerning the Word of God and those beliefs commonly called Calvinism. Many of these Reformers were Calvinists before Calvin. They were also almost untouched by secular politics, believing in the separation of Parliament and Church. Many Puritans failed to keep up the freshness and first …
… Melanchthon, often called Germany’s Erasmus. Unlike the bulk of Reformers including Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin and the English compilers of the 39 Articles and Homilies, the Melanchthon school taught a mere passive, non-causative, forensic justification turned into actual justification through obedience to natural law and the gospel. Because it was humanistic, it was man-centred. Sadly, the corrupt view of Reformation doctrine promoted in the declaration has crippled our Reformed …
… Reformed churches on the Continent, especially the Calvinistic, and accused the ultra-puritans (as Bullinger, Calvin, Gualter, Beza, Foxe, Jewel, Grindal and Whitgift had done) of leaving such paths. A compromise was attained regarding Confirmation. Local pastors should catechize the Confirmation candidates and test their faith before inviting the bishop to take the actual confirmation ceremony. All agreed to remove all symptoms of profanation from the Lord’s Day. The King requested that all …
Books
Aug 21
… 2004, Biographical and introductory chapters to Reformation Heritage Books’ reprint of Bullinger’s ‘ Decades ’.
2005, More Mountain Movers: Champions of the Faith, Go Publications.
2005, The Ministry of William Huntington S.S.: An Appreciation and Vindication of Huntington in ‘The Foundation of Life, Collected Writings of William Huntington’.
2006, An Overview of the Destructive Progress of Fullerism. Introduction to Go Publication’s reprint of William …
