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Guillaume Farel initiated and advanced religious reform in the French-speaking Swiss cantons, starting c. 1524. From 1538 to his death in 1565, Farel served as the leading pastor of the Reformed Church in Neuchâtel. Together with Pierre Viret (1511–1571) in Lausanne and Jean Calvin (1509–1564) in Geneva, he is regarded as one of the three great reformers of the Swiss territories. All of them worked closely with – at first against – the local city councils.
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Primary Literature (Emphasizing Farel’s Early Publications)
Farel, Guillaume. 1524. Le Pater Noster, et le Credo en francoys. Basel: Andreas Cratander.
Farel, Guillaume. 1530. Epistre a tous seigneurs, et peoples et pasteurs a qui le Seigneur m’a donné accez. In Du Vray usage de la croix de Iesus-Christ, suivi de divers écrits du même auteur, ed. Guillaume Farel, 1865. Geneva: J-G Fick.
Farel, Guillaume. 1532. De la tressaincte cene de nostre Seigneur Jesus: et de la messe quon chante communement. Basel: Thomas Wolff.
Farel, Guillaume. 1533. La Maniere et fasson qu’on tient en baillant le sainct baptesme. Neuchâtel: Pierre de Vingle.
Farel, Guillaume. 1534. Summaire et briefve declaration daucuns lieux fort necessaires a ung chascun Chrestien pour mettre sa confiance en Dieu et ayder son prochain. Neuchâtel: Pierre de Vingle.
Farel, Guillaume. 1536. Confession de la Foy laquelle tous bourgeois et habitans de Genève et subjectz du pays doyvent jurer de garder et tenir, extraicte de l’instruction dont on use en l’Eglise de la dicte ville. In 1986 La Vraie Piété: Divers Traités de Jean Calvin et Confession de foi de Guillaume Farel, ed. Irena Backus and Claire Chimelli, 39–53. Geneva: Labor et Fides.
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Van Raalte, T.G. (2022). Farel, Guillaume. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_1005
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