Ulrich Zwingli (2)

Life 1484-1531

Toggenburg Valley, Switzerland

Ordained Priest 1506

Chaplain to Swiss Mercenaries

People’s Preacher at the Old Minister in Zurich

Reformation began due to Ulrich’s NT Sermons

purgatory - Christian doctrine of the afterlie, holding that redeemed persons undergo a transformation purification between death and eternal blessedness, thereby becoming fit for the holiness of God

invocation of saints - if a person upheld a certain standard they would be considered a saint

monasticism - practice of separating from society and joining the community in a monastery

Zwingli’s first Reformation Tract April, 1522

Advocating liberation of believers from control of Papacy and Bishops

Johann Faber sent to Zurich but was silenced

Zwingli’s 67 theses: truth was the Gospel and authority of Pope, sacrificing of the Mass, invocation of saints, seasons of fasting, clerical celibacy, were rejected

City Council gave Zwingli full support reconstructed independence of Episcopal Control

October 26, 1523 - Second Public Disputation

Zwinglianism

Consubstantiation - eucharist is symbolic

Transubstantiation - eucharist is actual body and blood of Christ

Infant Baptism believed as natural development from circumcision in Old Testament

Council of Zurich drowned one of the Anabaptist leaders in 1527

1528 - Zwingli upheld 10 theses 1) the *Papacy, (2) *Tradition, (3) *Satisfaction, (4) the *Real Presence in the Eucharist, (5) the *Sacrifice of the Mass, (6) Mediation through the Saints, (7) *Purgatory, (8) *Images, (9) and (10) *Celibacy.

Movement met with resistance led to war in 1531

Zwingli killed October 11, 1531

Zwingli killed October 11, 1531