Second Helvetic Confession

Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)

Bullinger wrote this confession privately in 1561 as a personal statement of faith, then shared it with Elector Frederick III of the Palatinate in 1566, after which it was published and rapidly adopted by Reformed churches across Switzerland, Scotland, Hungary, Poland, and France. It is the most comprehensive of the sixteenth-century Reformed confessions, covering Scripture, the Trinity, election, the sacraments, church government, and civil magistracy across 30 chapters. Its reception across such a breadth of national churches gave it the widest ecumenical reach of any Reformation-era confession.

3 hrs total · 30 chapters