JACKSON, Tenn. — Oct. 9, 2017 — Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School and an award-winning author, will speak at the 2017 Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Oct. 19 at 51社区.
Gordon鈥檚 main lecture, 鈥淲hat Happened to the Bible in the Reformation?鈥� will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Union鈥檚 G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. He will also speak at 1:40 p.m. in the Carl Grant Events Center on 鈥淭he Many Faces of John Calvin.鈥�
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
An internationally recognized scholar on late medieval and Reformation history, Gordon is the author, editor or co-editor of 11 books, including 鈥淛ohn Calvin鈥檚 Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography,鈥� 鈥淭he Swiss Reformation鈥� and 鈥淐lerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580,鈥� among other works.
Prior to his appointment to the faculty at Yale Divinity School in 2008, Gordon taught at the University of St Andrews and served as a teaching assistant at the University of Toronto. He earned his doctorate in history at the University of St. Andrews in 1990.
For more information, contact Stephen Carls at (731) 661-5262 or scarls@uu.edu.