Taught by Bruce Douglass

Sundays, January 11 – January 25, 2026

Presbyterians are a branch of a wider spiritual family that has been known ever since the Protestant Reformation as “Reformed.” The figure who is most commonly identified as the founder of the Reformed movement is John Calvin, a French lawyer who became a theologian and pastor and spent most of his life in exile in Geneva, Switzerland. But Calvin did not act alone. He was part of a multinational team of leaders (laity as well as clergy) who together took actions that laid the foundations of Reformed Protestantism. This class is designed to provide a brief account of that part of Reformed history through an examination of the careers of some of the key figure

January 11 – John Calvin

January 18 – John Knox

January 25 – Marguerite of Navarre & Jeanne d’Albret