Bullinger, the Second Helvetic Confession and Zurich

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • Continental Confessions, lecture 7 of 10: Second Helvetic Confession Dr. Peter Lillback 80 min Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary (Westminster Media)
   • Continental Confessions, lecture 6 of 10: Calvin's Consensus Tigurinus Dr. Peter Lillback 75 min Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary (Westminster Media)
   • Seven Myths About the Reformation Debate Over the Lord's Supper Amy Nelson Burnett Open source History H. Henry Meeter Center, Calvin University Academic historians, several in the CRC milieu, not confessional subscribers in the school's sense; none of the retained lectures teaches doctrine. Retained strictly as history-context; the researcher's open question (whether history lectures by non-subscribers are acceptable) stands for the faculty.
   • German Calvinism in Crisis: The Heidelberg Conflict over Church Discipline 1568-1571 Charles Gunnoe Open source History H. Henry Meeter Center, Calvin University Academic historians, several in the CRC milieu, not confessional subscribers in the school's sense; none of the retained lectures teaches doctrine. Retained strictly as history-context; the researcher's open question (whether history lectures by non-subscribers are acceptable) stands for the faculty.

   Total: 2.6 hours

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • The Second Helvetic Confession (1566), full English text Heinrich Bullinger 30 chapters Open source Primary text 1566. Free online
   • The Second Helvetic Confession (eBook) Heinrich Bullinger Open source Primary text Free online
   • The Decades of Henry Bullinger (4 vols., Parker Society) Heinrich Bullinger (ed. Thomas Harding) 4 vols. Open source Doctrinal 1849-1852. Public domain
   • The Decades (eBook, modernized single-volume edition) Henry Bullinger (ed. William H. Gross) 50 sermons Open source Doctrinal 2009/2017 ed.. Free online
   • Reformed Confessions: Second Helvetic Confession (1566) John R. Muether Open source Supplementary 2017. Free online
   • Heinrich Bullinger and the Second Helvetic Confession (Second Helvetic Confession, Introduction) Ronald Cammenga Open source History 2015. Free online PRC holds the Three Forms but adds distinctives: denial of common grace and of the well-meant offer, and an unconditional-covenant polemic against conditional-covenant views held by other Three Forms churches (and against the Westminster 'offer' language, WCF 7.3, Canons II.5, III/IV.8). Keep as...
   • The Second Helvetic Confession (introduction) Ronald Cammenga Open source Supplementary 2015. Free online PRC holds the Three Forms but adds distinctives: denial of common grace and of the well-meant offer, and an unconditional-covenant polemic against conditional-covenant views held by other Three Forms churches (and against the Westminster 'offer' language, WCF 7.3, Canons II.5, III/IV.8). Keep as...

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 30 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.