Life
A boy of Dean Heinrich Bullinger by his married woman Anna (Wiederkehr), he was natural at Bremgarten, Aargau.

He exposed at Emmerich and Cologne, where a teaching of Peter Lombard led him, through Augustine of Hippo and Chrysostom, to first hand survey of the Bible. Next a writings of Luther and Melanchthon appealed to him.

Appointive teacher (1522) in the cloister school of Kappel, he lectured on Melanchthon's Loci Communes (1521). He heard Zwingli at Zürich in 1527, and next year accompanied him to the disputation at Berne.

Around 1529 Bullingers father was dismissed within Bremgarten due to his Evangelistic confession. Shortly subsequently, though, his boy held a sermon inside his hometown which mass produced a citizens burn their pictures of saints & elect the immature priest for their pastor. In the equivalent season, he married Annthe Adlischweiler, a previous nun. His marriage was happy & regarded as a shining lesson. His home was high-pressure filled sustaining fugitives, colleagues & humans shopping for even advice or serve. Bullinger was the concerned father of his eleven kids world health organization liked to play by using the babies & wrote verses to the children for Christmas. Wholly his sons became pastors themselves.

When a kill at Battle of Kappel (October 11, 1531), where Zwingli fell, Bremgarten experienced to go to to the Catholic faith. Bullinger & deuce more pastors experienced to leave a town, though a humans did non prefer to view the two last.

Bullinger arrived using his married woman & ii little youngsters within Zurich, in which he already on the Sunday when his arrival substitute Zwingli's ambo in the Peachy Minster &, based on datthe from a contemporary description, "thundered a sermon from the pulpit that many thought Zwingli was not dead but resurrected like the phoenix". Within December of a equivalent season, he wwhen, at a age of Xxvii, elected to become the successor of Zwingli as antistes of the Zurich church. He accepted a election just when a council got assured him explicitely that he was within his preaching "free, unbound and without restriction" potentially in case it necessitated critique of the government. He saved his professional as much as his dying inside 1575.

The heavy writer & thinker, his spirit was au fond unifying & sympathetic, inside an age whilst these qualities won little sympathy.

Bullingers cordial reception & charity was exemplary & Zurich accepted numbers of protestant fugitives from either northern Italy (Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a decendant of such fugitives) & fallowing a demise of Henry VIII as well from either England. Once these returned to England fallowing a demise of Mary I of England, they took Bullingers writings by having the two world health organization obtained the wide distribution. From either 1550 to 1560, there were inside England 77 editions of Bullinger's Latin "Decades" & 137 editions of their common translation "House Book", a treatise inside pastoral theology (compared to, Calvins Institutions got ii editions around England in the period of the equivalent period). Occasionally historiographer count Bullinger together by using Bucer when a virtually all influential theologizer of the Anglican reformation.

Though Bullinger did non leave Switzerl& fallowing becoming antistes of Zurich, he conducted the long correspondence 100% above Europe and was and then swell informed that he edited a sort of newspaper all about political developments.

His contention on the Lord's Supper with Luther, and his correspondence with Lelio Sozini, exhibit, in different connections, his admirable mixture of dignity and tenderness. Sustaining Calvin he concluded (1549) the Consensus Tigurinus on the Lord's Supper. He died at Zürich & wwhen followed as antistes by his boy-within-law Rudolf Gwalther.

Among his descendent was a noted Biblical scholar E.W. Bullinger.

Understand Carl Pestalozzi, Leben (1858); Raget Christoffel, H. Bullinger (1875); Justus Heer, inside Hauck's Realencyklopädie (1897).

Works
Bullingers works comprise 127 titles. Already when you took his life it were translated inside many languages & counted among a better known theological works around Europe.

Theological works

His independent operate were a Decades", a treatise in pastoral theology, in the vernacular called "Home Book".

The (second) Helvetic Confession (1566) adopted in Switzerland, Hungary, Bohemia and elsewhere, was his work. The volumes of the Zürich Letters, published by the Parker Society, testify to his influence on the English reformation in later stages.

Many of his sermons were translated into English (reprinted, 4 vols., 1849). His works, mainly expository and polemical, have not been collected.

[http://public.csusm.edu/public/guests/rsclark/Decades.htm Table of Contents of the Decades] [http://www.covenanter.org/Antitoleration/bullinger0208.html Second decade, eighth sermon, The Magistrate] [http://www.covenanter.org/Predestination/bullinger_04_04.html Forth decade, forth sermon, Predestination] [http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/bulling.htm An Answer Given To A Certain Scotsman, In Reply To Some Questions Concerning The Kingdom Of Scotland And England] [http://www.idc.nl/?id=376 Microfiche collection of his original works] [http://www.unizh.ch/irg/baende.html Werke''] - Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich

Historical
Besides theological works, Bullinger also wrote some historical works of value. The main of it, the "Tiguriner Chronik" is a history of Zurich from Roman times to the Reformation, others are a history of the Reformation and a history of the Swiss confederation.

Letters

There exist about 12,000 letters from and to Bullinger, the most extended correspondence preserved from Reformation times. He mainly wrote in Latin with some quotes in Hebrew and Greek, about 10 percent in Swiss German.

Bullinger was a personal friend and advisor of many leading personalities of the reformation era. He corresponded with Reformed, Anglican, Lutheran, and Baptist theologians, with Henry VIII of England, Edward VI of England, Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I of England, Christian II of Denmark, Philipp I of Hesse and Frederick III, Elector Palatine.

[http://www.unizh.ch/irg/karten.html Geographical overview of Bullingers correspondence]] [http://www.unizh.ch/irg/briefwechseldb/index_engl.html Database of Bullinger's Letters]

External references

[http://www.der-nachfolger.ch/content/e850/e793/Annex_01_16_Engl._2004.pdf The Successor, Magazine Reformierte Presse 2004] [http://www.elib.org.uk/lectures/el_2004_bullinger.pdf Heinrich Bullinger and the Reformation. A comprehensive faith] [http://www.pcea.asn.au/bullingr.html Bullinger and the Second Helvetic Confession] [http://www.swgc.mun.ca/animus/current/kirby.pdf The Civil Magistrate and the cura religionis: Heinrich Bullinger’s Prophetical Office and the English Reformation] [http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~isnavely/bull.htm Bibliography: Heinrich Bullinger and the Reformation in Zurich after the Second Kappel War] [http://www.go-newfocus.co.uk/articles/henry_bullinger.htm Henry Bullinger, Shepherd of the Churches] [http://pages.slc.edu/~eraymond/reformation/three.html Heinrich Bullinger 1504-75: Man of Reconciliation] [http://www.rsglh.org/bulling.htm Heinrich Bullinger: Covenant Theologian (A Cloud of Witnesses, chapter 25, by Prof. Herman Hanko)]