Wadsworth Memorial Calvin Lecture

The Faculty of Religious Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Bruce Gordon (Yale) as this year's Wadsworth Memorial Calvin lecturer, who will offer a presentation titled, "Scripture & Church: Calvin Servetus and Castellio."

Bruce Gordon was born in Winnipeg and studied at the University of King's College/Dalhousie in Nova Scotia. After completing a doctorate at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland he was a research fellow in Germany. In 1994 he was appointed to the History Department at St Andrews and he taught there for almost fifteen years. In 2008 he and his family moved to New Haven, Connecticut, as he took up the position of professor of Church History at Yale Divinity School. He is now the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History and also teaches in the History Department at Yale.

The G. Campbell Wadsworth memorial Lecture series, established in 1997 by the Estate of REv. Dr. G. Campbell Wadsworth, focuses on the life and works of John Calvin, and is organized on a bi-annual basis. The first G. Campbell Wadsworth memorial Lecture was presented by Professor Alan J. Torrance; the second, by Professor Colin Gunton; the third by Professor John Webster; the fourth by Professor Joan Lockwood O'Donovan.

Dr. Wadsworth was a Minister of the Montreal West United Church for many years, a keen student of the history and doctrine of the Reformation, and an active member of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

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