Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531)
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- English
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- ~130,000 words · 609 passages
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- APAUlrich Zwingli. (n.d.). Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ulrich-zwingli/selected-works-of-huldreich-zwingli-1484-1531
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- ChicagoUlrich Zwingli. Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ulrich-zwingli/selected-works-of-huldreich-zwingli-1484-1531.
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What it is about
A selection from the writings of Zwingli, the reformer of Zurich, who reached conclusions like Luther's on his own and broke with him on one point.
Context and history
Zwingli began preaching in Zurich in 1519, two years after Luther's theses, and maintained that he had come to his position by reading Erasmus and the Greek New Testament, not by reading Luther. His Sixty-Seven Articles of 1523 are the programme of the Swiss Reformation. The breaking point was the eucharist: for Luther the body of Christ is really present there; for Zwingli the words 'this is my body' are a figure and the sacrament is a memorial. The two met at Marburg in 1529 and could not agree, and that division persists. Zwingli died at forty-seven, weapon in hand, in a battle between Catholic and Reformed cantons.
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feeling the good men who heard me may judge. The general gist of what I said, however, you shall hear when we come to the proceedings before the Senate. The delegates abandoned this wing as routed and put to flight, and hurried quickly to another, to the Senate, namely, where, as I have learned from Senators, the same harangue was delivered and my name was avoided in the same way, and the Senate was persuaded not to have me summoned. For they said they had no concern whatever with me. ‘After this the opinions varied for some time, but finally they decided that the Commons (that is, two hundred men, called the Greater Senate), should meet in full assembly on the following day, and that the bishops * of the city, of whom there are three * Zwingli uses this term of the people’s priests or preachers of the three parish churches in Zurich, viz., the Great Minster, Minster of our Lady, and St. Peter’s. He explains it below. THE EPISCOPAL VISITATION. II