Bruce Gordon (historian)

Bruce Gordon (born 1962 in Canada) is Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He previously 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. Gordon specializes in late-medieval and early modern religious culture. His 1990 dissertation was entitled Clerical Discipline and the Church Synods in Zürich, 1532-1580.

Works

• Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zürich, 1532-1580 (Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte) (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 1992) ISBN 9783261044068
• (editor with Peter Marshall) The Place of the Dead in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press 2000) ISBN 9780521642569
• The Swiss Reformation (Manchester University Press 2002) ISBN 9780719051180
• (editor with Emidio Campi) Architect of Reformation: An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575 (Baker Academic 2004) ISBN 9780801028991
• Calvin (Yale University Press, 2009) ISBN 9780300170849
• John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography. (Princeton 2016) ISBN 9781786845696
• (editor with Carl Trueman) The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford University Press 2021) ISBN 9780191795527
• Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet (Yale University Press 2021) ISBN 9780300258790
• The Bible: A Global History (Basic Books 2024) ISBN 9781541619739