Key Themes: Church history
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The success of Zwingli’s Reformation was, from the very outset dependent on support from the Zurich magistrates. The Bishop of Constance was outraged at the implied criticism the 'Affair of the Sausages' made of the Church, but when he voiced his protests he found that the city’s ruling council... Read more -
Zwingli’s Zurich Reformation was by no means simply a “rip off” of what Martin Luther was doing in Wittenberg. Zwingli himself was always keen to emphasize that it was God’s word, not Luther which was his teacher and there is every reason to believe him. Zwingli drew much more on Christian... Read more -
I doubt that there is even a single reader of this blog who has not heard of Martin Luther or John Calvin. These two stand like giants in the history of the Protestant Church. Love them or loathe them, you can hardly ignore them. Ulrich Zwingli, an exact contemporary of Martin Luther (Luther was... Read more - Page < 1 2 3 4 > Last ›