ABSTRACT
The Reformed tradition embraces a wide variety of churches that derive their theologies from certain prominent Swiss, French and German theologians of the sixteenth century, whose ideas were conserved and developed in the Swiss cantons, Huguenot France, the German Palatinate, Hungary, the Netherlands and Scotland. The tradition is often dubbed ‘Calvinist’, but John Calvin, though perhaps the most outstanding theologian of this tradition, was not its only seminal thinker. In fact, the early formative rites and theological developments centred in Zurich, Berne and Strasbourg as much as Calvin’s Geneva.
