Calvin and Bullinger: the Reformed Tradition

After Zwingli, the leaders of the Reformed Tradition were John Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger. But what did they do to start the Reformed Tradition? This video tells the story of Calvin in Geneva and Bullinger in Zurich, and the unity they fashioned at the Consensus Tigurinus.
Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Twitter: / ryanmreeves Instagram: / ryreeves4
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For the entire course on 'Church History: Reformation to Modern', see the playlist: • Renaissance & Modern H...

[@nparksntx]

This has been a great series. You come across as fairly balanced & I appreciate that! You have a great voice for this.

[@CBALLEN]

Great video series and you also have a great radio voice.

[@3armmug]

Dr. Reeves, I will be taking your History of Christianity 2 class this summer in Houston. I look forward to it and meeting you. Is this playlist of nine videos all of the online lectures we need to view, or are there more coming? thanks, and see you in July! Clint Allen

[@RyanReevesM]

Clint Allen // Hey Clint. Looking forward to it. No this is only a portion. I'm in the process of making the rest, but they'll all be up for the week they need to be watched. A good number are in the works. :)

[@3armmug]

Ryan Reeves So I could start watching these and be good?

[@RyanReevesM]

Clint Allen // Yes in general. I'll be emailing out the full list tonight or tomorrow. The list already up will be certainly used, but going forward I'll have more up here than will be assigned. Essentially, I'm making a fully online course and using half of them for the hybrid style classes you're in.

[@mrbobspongeful]

Dr Reeves, thanks for the upload. Are you dropping St Thomas? :(

[@RyanReevesM]

Bob Sponge // Not at all. Just had deadlines related to Reformation church history that I am meeting first. :)

[@joshjeggs]

were the Catholics the first to appoint burning as a death sentence?

No. It's mainly a protestant thing though.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Everyone back then had worms, parasites and a whole host of chronic nasty ailments with little treatment to ease the misery. To brush off Calvin's well-known anger outbursts as a result of his ailments sounds like excuse making. Most adults back then should be having explosive anger, especially when their beliefs/statements are questioned, if that were the case. People who grow up a "privileged"/comfortable environment plus highly educated, tend to be arrogant, aloft, narrow-minded and quick to attack if their "knowledge" is questioned or not enthusiastically accepted. Nothing has changed to this day actually. I can attest that chronic illness can make a person grumpy but state of being exists whether or not someone is resisting your ideas. If you're a public figure people see patterns in how you act and react. Someone who is calm or relatively so, but blows up only when people question/resist them, then its obvious where the anger is coming from. In this case its plain to see that Calvin's anger issues stem from his superiority attitude and personality.

[@RyanReevesM]

A more charitable reading would be that I am adding the same context to the question of his social relationships as every other historian does. Adding context to a point is not brushing aside. Besides the entirety of these lectures show how Calvin is often seen as waspish to people, even those on his side. I also say that he tends to carry himself as a bit of a snob, which your last point seems to think is new. The tendency by most who are not historians, actually, tends to be to brush aside an authentically historical reading of the past. For example, it is not true that everyone was riddled with parasites or suffered these same issues. Historians often are boggled at how much Calvin's body was plagued by this stuff.