Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where he was professor of modern history and deputy director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of King’s College, Canada. He is the author of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin, a biography of the Genevan reformer, and Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet. He has written widely on early modern history writing, biblical culture, Reformation devotion and spirituality, and the place of the dead in pre-modern culture.