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 Union University.
Gordon’s main lecture, “What Happened to the Bible in the Reformation?” will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Union’s G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. He will also speak at 1:40 p.m. in the Carl Grant Events Center on “The Many Faces of John Calvin.”
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 “John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography,” “The Swiss Reformation” and “Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580,” 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.