Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575): Life - Thought - Influence

Throughout the year 2004 a Quincentenary Jubilee was held in Zurich to mark the birth of Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Reformer and successor (Der Nachfolger) to Huldrych Zwingli after the latter's death at the battle of Kappel in 1531.Bullinger served as Antistes (Chief Pastor) of the Church of Zurich from that date until his own death in 1575, thus ensuring that he would stand as a figure of continuity through the manifold upheavals, both theological and political, of the mid-sixteenth century.For an English-speaking audience it is perhaps worth noting that Bullinger's life-span coincides exactly with that of Matthew Parker (also 1504-1575), the first reformed Archbishop of Canterbury under Elizabeth Tudor.Bullinger was among the most influential of all sixteenth-century Protestant reformers of the second generation.As the author of the Second Helvetic Confession he formulated what is agreed to be the most significant and lasting international standard of Reformed doctrinal orthodoxy.Throughout his long career Bullinger sustained a vast correspondence with adherents of religious reform throughout Europe.So it was highly appropriate that among the highlights of the quincentenary festivities there should be an International Congress hosted by The Institute for Swiss Reformation History at the University of Zurich and attended by a sizable contingent of scholars from across the globe: from Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary, England, Scotland, Canada, the United States, and beyond.The Congress, titled Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575): Life, Thought, Influence enjoyed the most generous hospitality of the community of scholars of the Schola Tigurina, the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, the Zwingliverein, and the Council of Zurich itself over the space of four days at the end of August 2004.Those in attendance gathered daily to hear more than sixty learned contributions, some of them major lectures and others shorter papers.A great many aspects of Bullinger's life, thought, and influence were addressed, and a sizable number of these, as might be expected, took up his voluminous theological oeuvre.Bullinger was particularly famous for his five Decades of sermons, which stand beside Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion and the Commonplaces of Peter Martyr Vermigli as one of the most distinguished and influential contributions to Reformed theology in the sixteenth century.

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