Lesser-Known Reformers: Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)
Last month we met Ulrich Zwingli, reformer in Zurich, Switzerland, who was the first to use the doctrine of the covenant to defend infant baptism. He died in the Second Battle of Kappel (1531). At this battle, the Catholics defeated the Protestants. That means this was a critical moment in history. Would the Zurich Reformation fizzle out? Had it just been a one-man show? Would Catholicism now gain the upper hand? Or, if some other reformer arose, would he turn the Swiss Reformation in a...