Ulrich Zwingli

The Puritans of New England believed that religious freedom applied to you only if you lived and believed and worshiped as they did.

But then along came Roger Williams, who introduced the concept of religious liberty for all, and then the truth would go marching on through men like Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich, and John Wesley and his brother Charles in England, through Philip Melanchthon, and Thomas Cranmer, and Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley, and Theodore Beza, and John Knox in Scotland, and Hassan Jerome, and William Farrell, and Roger Williams, and many others.

So when did the Reformation end? Or has it ended? Perhaps there's still a work to be done, a work of reform, a work of calling people to faithfulness to God and to faith in the Word of God.

Throughout the rest of this series, 500, you'll meet some of the great characters of the Reformation.

Luther taught Christ was still somehow physically present, not that he changed and became, you know, the bread became him, but the bread was still the bread, but somehow he was in the bread of consubstantiation.

Zwingli was another reformer who taught, no, it's just memorialist view.

It's just we do this in memory of him, which we do in a sense.

But we, as a reformed Presbyterian church, go with what John Calvin taught of this.

We talked about that a little bit before, and I said I would come back to this, and so here I am.

Zwingli taught it, so did Bullinger.

It's in the Second Helvetic Confession, so this isn't even just a private opinion among the Reformed.

It made it into a confessional tradition.

Other times it was Mennonites.

The Mennonites and the Menno Simons were doctrinally far, far superior in their doctrine as an Anabaptist sect to Luther or Calvin or Zwingli or any of the Reformation churches.

Their doctrine was right, much more right.

They were practices of believers' baptism, among other things.

Book 3, Chapter 12.

The Reformation in Switzerland, Zwingli and Calvin, Part 1.

A. Zwingli The Reformation movement in Switzerland naturally divides itself into two parts.

The one is connected with the name of Zwingli and the town of Zurich, the other with the Frenchman Calvin and the town of Geneva.

Zwingli was Luther's contemporary.

Calvin belonged to a generation later.

Zwingli's Reformation was accomplished in the German-speaking east of Switzerland, Calvin's in the French-speaking west.

There was little direct connection between the two movements, and yet the one was a continuation of the other.

But at the heart of it all really was the recovery of the Word of God and the power of the Word of God.

that really lit a fire in the hearts right from Wycliffe, through Luther, through Zwingli, Calvin, right on into the English Reformation.

And I think that it lit a fire in people's hearts that enabled them to see that change, reform, renewal was absolutely necessary.

And I think it's just quite encouraging to think, wow, God's word has done it over and over again in church history.

Now, some of your, you know, academic people, and especially in the Reformed camp, will know the Reformation till now.

And they know Martin Luther and John Calvin and, and Zwingli and all those guys.

Not so much the English Reformation, but the Continental Reformation.

Um, so they'll know the start of the Reformation, but they may not know all of the ins and outs.