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Heinrich Bullinger
1504–1575
A steady voice of the Swiss Reformation, this Zurich pastor helped carry the movement forward after Zwingli’s death and became one of its most influential writers. His sermons, letters, and confessions shaped Reformed Protestant thought far beyond Switzerland.
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A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull. Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
by Pietro Martire Vermigli, Heinrich Bullinger
About the author
Born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, in 1504, Heinrich Bullinger studied in Cologne and was drawn to the Bible and the early church fathers during the first wave of Reformation debate. After teaching at the Cistercian school in Kappel, he joined the reform movement in Zurich and, in 1531, succeeded Huldrych Zwingli as chief pastor at the Grossmünster.
Bullinger spent the next four decades stabilizing and strengthening the Zurich church at a difficult moment. He was known not only as a preacher and pastor, but also as an unusually prolific writer and correspondent whose letters connected reformers across Europe.
He is especially remembered for helping shape the theology of the Reformed tradition through the Helvetic Confessions, above all the Second Helvetic Confession of 1566. By the time of his death in 1575, Bullinger had become one of the key builders of Protestant life in Switzerland and an important bridge between the first generation of reformers and those who followed.