… 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 fails to convince us that he himself is a safe standard worthy of …
Posts Tagged Martin Bucer
Henry Bullinger
Sep 15
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 Calvin. Born in 1504 in Bremgarten, Switzerland to a wealthy …
Welcome
Aug 17
… However, I do not wish to neglect the great Continental Reformers such as Jan Hus, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer and Henry Bullinger, men of God without whom Calvin would have perhaps never have been won over by Calvinism and would certainly not have been enabled to write his Institutes. Bucer, especially, whom older writers called the Father of Calvinism, is most undeservedly neglected today.
I am not a denominational man and deplore the commonly held conception that ‘the …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Hall (1574-1656): Man of Peace
Katherina Luther (1499-1552): The Morning Star of Wittenberg
Martin Bucer (1491-1551): Moderator of the Reformation
Matthew Parker (1504-1575): Cleaning Up After Mary
Miles Coverdale (1487-1569): Superintendent-At-Large of the Reformation
Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500-55): The Man Who Gave Divine Lustre to the Reformation
Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) and the Poetry of Piety
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751): Teacher of the Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul …
Books
Aug 21
… Quarterly, Bible League Quarterly, British Reformed Journal, Die Kirche, Focus, Gospel Magazine, Martin Bucer Seminar, New Focus and a number of Swedish, Canadian, American, British, German publications of which no track has been kept.
Go Publications books are best ordered directly from Go Publications, The Cairn, Hill Top, Eggleston, Co. Durham, DL12OAU, UK.
However, two British bookshops have my books in stock and would thus speed up access for local readers. These are:
Christian …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… but also lesser known, though vitally important men, such as Olevianus, Ursinus, Bullinger and Bucer. It is when the reader turns to the British section that the author’s bias becomes evident. Not one single English Reformer during the long reign of Elizabeth, be it Parker, Coverdale, Jewel, Grindal, Perkins or whoever, is mentioned by Hanko as a ‘Faithful Saint’. In Henry VIII’s reign, William Tyndale (c.1490-1536) is given due prominence and rightly so. Yet Tyndale was not the …
Missionary McCoy
Aug 21
… my findings in another work. Thompson respected McCoy highly and assisted him to baptise Corbly Martin, the first teacher in McCoy’s Indian School. Martin asked the Miami Association to accept the Fort Wayne Church into membership and help support the Indian mission. The Association asked Thompson to serve as clerk and forward their decision. They reported that:
“The united voice of every member that spoke on the subject, was in approbation of your conduct, object, candure …
… the Lutheran welcome was less than half-hearted, many left for Strassburg with its Reformed Marin Bucer and Peter Martyr connections and finally to Frankfurt where Charles V had offered the exiles the freedom of the city, later adding the proviso that they took on Frankfurt citizenship, paid taxes and took up occupations. As there seemed no hope of return, Mary being young, such stalwarts as Coverdale, Grindal, Sandys and Fox decided that a future in Frankfurt was possible. Incidentally, …
… 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 love of …
… in Strasburg, Geneva and London. He was particularly influenced on the question of baptism by Martin Bucer of Strasburg. Sadly, from Luther’s side, apart from a short respite, he received only adverse criticism as Luther now ranked the Swiss Reformed churches with the Catabaptists, seeing little, if any, difference. Paradoxically, this was because Luther held to a more sacramental and mystical view of the ordinances than did Bullinger, which was one of Bullinger’s main complaints …
