Helvetic Consensus

The Consensus Helveticus is a 1674 written condemnation of the milder doctrine of predestination of Moyse Amyraut. The consensus was in the spirit of the Synod of Dordrecht of 1618/19 and passed the Calvinist beliefs together.

The 25 articles of the text go to the Zurich Professor Johann Heinrich Heidegger and his colleague François Turrettini Geneva ( 1623-1687 ) back. The document was 1675 and in 1676 declared in Reformed Switzerland generally binding, but came in the Electorate of Brandenburg, and in England, upon opposition and fell at the beginning of the 18th century into oblivion.

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

In the Zurich church after the term of Antistes Johann Ludwig Nüscheler (1737) no clergy were more committed to the consensus. The clergy were moving not just in the Calvinist orthodoxy, but were also Pietism (Johann Caspar Lavater ) and the Enlightenment influenced. Thus the dogmatic pluralism had officially begun within the national church.