Bruce Gordon

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Titus Street Professor of Divinity and Professor of History and of Religious Studies

A native of Canada, Bruce Gordon taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he was professor of modern history and deputy director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute, before joining the Yale faculty in 2008. Gordon’s research and teaching focus on European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods, with a particular interest in the Reformation and its reception. His most recent book is John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion(Princeton 2016), which looks at the reception from the sixteenth century to the age of YouTube of one of the defining works of the Reformation. He is the author of Calvin (Yale, 2009), a biography of the Genevan reformer, and the Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002), a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Publication” (2003). In addition, he has edited books and written widely on early modern history, biblical culture, Reformation devotion and spirituality, and the place of the dead in pre-modern culture. He was the principal investigator for a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom for the project “Protestant Latin Bibles of the Sixteenth Century.” Recently, he received a Horace W. Goldsmith Award from Yale University to develop an online course (MOOC) called “A Journey through Western Christianity,” which appeared in early 2017.

Department: 
DIVDEA Dean
Fields of Interest: 
Early German Reformation; History of Christianity; European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods; the Reformation
Geography Focus: 
Western Europe
Thematic Focus: 
Culture
History
Religious
Period Focus: 
Early Modern
Medieval