Bruce Gordon (born 1962 in Canada) is Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at
Yale Divinity School
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. He previously taught at the
University of St Andrews
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in Scotland, where he was professor of modern history and deputy director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute. Gordon specializes in
late-medieval and
early modern
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religious culture.
His 1990 dissertation was entitled ''Clerical Discipline and the Church Synods in Zürich, 1532-1580''.
Works
*''Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zürich, 1532-1580 (Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte)'' (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 1992)
* (editor with Peter Marshall) ''The Place of the Dead in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe'' (Cambridge University Press 2000)
*''The Swiss Reformation'' (Manchester University Press 2002)
* (editor with Emidio Campi) ''Architect of Reformation: An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575'' (Baker Academic 2004)
*''Calvin'' (Yale University Press, 2009)
*''John Calvin’s'' Institutes of the Christian Religion'': A Biography''. (Princeton 2016)
* (editor with Carl Trueman) ''The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism'' (Oxford University Press 2021)
*''Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet'' (Yale University Press 2021)
*''The Bible: A Global History'' (Basic Books 2024)
References
Yale Divinity School faculty
21st-century American historians
20th-century Canadian historians
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
1962 births
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