Editing Heinrich Bullinger (section)

==== Cooperation with Geneva ====
{{See also|Consensus Tigurinus|}}
By the 1540s, Bullinger had drawn closer to [[John Calvin]] of [[Geneva]]. Together they wrote a response to the [[Council of Trent]], and then, in 1549, they jointly drafted the ''[[Consensus Tigurinus]]'', an agreement between [[Calvinism|Calvinists]] and Zwinglians about the doctrine of the Eucharist.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />{{Rp|20}}

In the early 1550s, Bullinger published his most significant work, ''Decades'', a series of fifty sermons, written in Latin and published from 1548 to 1551, a series that effectively served as a systematic theology. The sermons were widely distributed, and Bullinger became even better known as a Reformer.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|20}} Nevertheless, Bullinger's Zurich suffered bad weather, poor harvests, the bane of Swiss politics, and the plague. Bullinger's wife and daughter both died of the plague during the early 1560s, when the disease swept across central and western Europe.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|21}}

Bullinger played a crucial role in drafting the ''Second Helvetic Confession'' of 1566. Bullinger had written the first draft in 1562 as a personal statement of faith, which in a 1564 revision, he intended to be presented to the Zürich [[Rathaus (Zürich)|Rathaus]] after his death.<ref name="EB1911" /> In 1566, after [[Frederick III, Elector Palatine|Frederick III the Pious]], [[elector palatine]], introduced Reformed elements into churches in his region, Bullinger had this statement of faith circulated among the Protestant cities of Switzerland; and it gained a favorable response in many Swiss cities, including Bern, Zürich, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Chur, and Geneva.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philip Schaff: History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII: Modern Christianity. The Swiss Reformation - Christian Classics Ethereal Library |url=https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc8/hcc8.iv.vi.v.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=ccel.org}}</ref> The statement was also adopted by Reformed churches in Scotland (1566), Hungary (1567), France (1571), and Poland (1578). Only the Heidelberg Catechism was better known as a Reformed confession. The Second Helvetic Confession was also slightly modified to become the French Confession de Foy (1559), the Scottish Confessio Fidei (1560) the Belgian Ecclasiarum Belgicarum Confessio (1561) and the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) itself.<ref name="EB1911" /> 
[[File:Heinrich Bullinger Grossmunster Zurich.jpg|thumb|Sculpture of Bullinger at [[Grossmünster]] (Otto Charles Bänninger 1940)]]