"For God's sake, do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God. For truly it will persist as surely as the Rhine follows its course. One can perhaps dam it up for awhile, but it is impossible to ...

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Often the readership of a biography is limited by the name recognition of its subject, and here we find Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet at a disadvantage. If you need to be reminded of who Ulrich Zwingli ...

The Colloquy at Marburg was called in hopes of reconciling the two centers of the German Reformation—Zurich and Wittenburg, but conflict over the Lord’s Supper split their common cause. Not nearly as ...

Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: ...

Belated reconciliation: In 1525 Protestant Reformer Ulrich Zwingli preached against the Anabaptists, setting off persecution, exile and martyrdom of the more radical reform group. In June, ...

Unter dem Motto «Allein die Schrift» kam es während der Reformation zu einer Wiederentdeckung der Bibel. Kein Wunder, war es auch die hohe Zeit der Bibelübersetzungen. Als der grosse Bibelübersetzer ...

Ulrich Zwingli macht am 29. Januar 1523 die Stadt nach Entmachtung des Patriziats zum Zentrum der Reformation. Infolge der sogenannten ersten und zweiten Disputation erkennt der Stadtrat Zwinglis ...

«Huld und Schuld» ist ein Stück mit drei Handlungssträngen. Da sind die drei Erzengel auf ihrer Wolke, die sich weigern, ein Stück über «den Ketzer» aufzuführen. Dies, weil vor allem Raphael ...

Der Priester ­Ulrich Zwingli rebelliert gegen die katholische Amtskirche. Ulrich Zwingli zählte neben Martin ­Luther zu den schärfsten Kritikern der katholischen Kirche im 16. Jahrhundert. Als er im ...

“Ah God! If only Adam had eaten a pear!” So wrote the young Swiss Priest Ulrich Zwingli in the margin of a copy of St. Augustine’s City of God. It was the half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man ...

Five Hundred years ago, the Protestant Swiss reformer, Ulrich Zwingli’s theology was designated the official religion of Zurich. The rumblings of the Reformation were just starting. As education ...