Consensus Helveticus

The Consensus Helveticus is a 1674 condemnation of the toned down doctrine of predestination by Moyse Amyraut . The consensus was in the spirit of the Dordrecht Synod of 1618/19 and summarized the Calvinist convictions.

The 26 articles of the text go back to the Zurich professor Johann Heinrich Heidegger and the theologians François Turrettini , Hans Caspar Waser and Lukas Gernler . The document was declared generally binding in Reformed Switzerland in 1675 and 1676 , but met with opposition in the Electorate of Brandenburg and in England and was forgotten at the beginning of the 18th century.

The resistance to the introduction of the Consensus Helveticus in Vaud indirectly led to Major Davel's unsuccessful revolt against the Bernese rule in 1723 .

In the Zurich church , after the term of office of Antistes Johann Ludwig Nüscheler (1737), no more clergymen were obliged to the consensus. The clergy no longer moved only in the Calvinist orthodoxy, but were also shaped by Pietism ( Johann Caspar Lavater ) and the Enlightenment . The dogmatic pluralization within the regional church had officially begun.

Web links

Olivier Fatio: Formula Consensus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Johann Heinrich Heidegger: Formula consensus ecclesiarum Helveticarum reformatarum On: www.reformiert-info.de, complete transcription of the German-language column from the Latin-German copy of the Zurich Central Library, transcribed by Remigius Suter, Ziefen, 2013, accessed on November 26, 2018

Individual evidence

^ Helmut Meyer, Bernhard Schneider: Mission and Diakonie. The history of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Zurich (= communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich. Volume 78). Chronos, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1060-3 , p. 15.

[1] Helmut Meyer, Bernhard Schneider: Mission and Diakonie. The history of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Zurich (= communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich. Volume 78). Chronos, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1060-3 , p. 15.