Geneva
After Darkness, Light
The story of Geneva’s motto, Post Tenebras Lux, and how the recovered gospel brought the light of Christ out of medieval darkness.
Church Discipline
How the Reformers recovered pastoral church discipline as a mark of the true church, a means of restoration, and a safeguard for the congregation.
Clément Marot
A short biography of Clément Marot (c. 1496–1544), court poet of Francis I and Margaret of Navarre, whose metrical psalms began the Huguenot Psalter completed by Beza.
Dispute de Rive (1535)
Dispute de Rive (1535): Geneva before Calvin. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
Gospel Missions
How vernacular preaching, Geneva, early overseas efforts, and Reformation theology helped prepare the modern Protestant missionary movement.
History of the English Bible
A concise history of the English Bible from Wycliffe’s handwritten translation through Tyndale, the Geneva Bible, and the King James Version.
Impact on Civics
How Reformation ideas shaped limited government, checks and balances, resistance theory, federalism, written constitutions, and American political thought.
Impact on Society
How the Reformation reshaped marriage, family, poor relief, the diaconate, work, and communal discipline in Western society.
Jacopo Sadoleto
The eloquent cardinal whose letter urging Geneva back to Rome drew Calvin’s classic Reply in 1539.
John Calvin
A biography of John Calvin, the Genevan Reformer, drawn from his life and writings.
John Calvin’s Travels
An interactive chronological map of John Calvin’s travels from Noyon and Paris through exile, Strasbourg, and Geneva.
John Knox
A biographical sketch of John Knox (c. 1514–1572): Wishart’s bodyguard, galley slave, chaplain to Edward VI, pastor in Geneva, and reformer of Scotland.
John Knox’s Travels
An interactive chronological map of John Knox’s travels through Scotland, the French galleys, England, Frankfurt, and Geneva.
Pierre de la Baume
Geneva’s worldly last prince-bishop, whose flight from the city in 1533 opened the way for Farel and Calvin.
Pierre Viret
A short biography of Pierre Viret (1511–1571), the gentle reformer of Lausanne, friend of Farel and Calvin, and the most sought-after Protestant preacher of the Huguenot churches of southern France.
Rise of Presbyterianism
The rise of English Presbyterianism through Cartwright, the Admonition, the classical movement, Hampton Court, and the Westminster Assembly.
The Bishops’ Bible
The history, translators, text, reception, and limitations of the Bishops’ Bible of 1568, the official Elizabethan answer to the Geneva Bible.
The Council of Geneva
The Council of Geneva of 1536: the Dispute de Rive, the suspension of the mass, and the vote of 21 May 1536 by which the citizens of Geneva swore to live according to the Gospel and the Word of God — two months before Calvin arrived.
The Geneva Bible
The history, translation, notes, and enduring influence of the Geneva Bible of 1560, the study Bible of English Puritans and Pilgrims.
The Geneva Catechism
Calvin's Geneva Catechism of 1541: why his first catechism failed, the decisive reordering of faith before law, the four parts, the famous first question, and its influence on the Heidelberg and Westminster catechisms.
The Huguenots
A history of the French Huguenots, their confession and discipline, wars and massacres, the Edict of Nantes, exile, and the Church of the Desert.
The King James Version
The making, translation method, publication, reception, and literary influence of the King James Version of 1611.
The Scots Confession
The Scots Confession of 1560: the six Johns who wrote it in four days, John Knox's part in it, the twenty-five chapters, the marks of the true Kirk, and why this confession founded Scottish Presbyterianism.
Theodore Beza
A short biography of Theodore Beza (1519–1605), rector of the Academy of Geneva, biographer and successor of John Calvin, and counselor of the Huguenots.
William Farel
A short biography of William Farel (1489–1565), the fiery evangelist of French-speaking Switzerland who won Neuchâtel and Geneva for the Reformation and held John Calvin in Geneva in 1536.
William Whittingham
A short biography of William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579), Marian exile, Knox’s successor at Geneva, chief editor of the Geneva Bible, and Dean of Durham.
