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Zwingli

NOUN
  1. Swiss theologian whose sermons began the Reformation in Switzerland (1484-1531)

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  • In 1526, a letter that he sent to a conference of the Swiss cantons called to organize opposition to the spread of Zwinglian doctrines again stated his objections to Sacramentarian doctrine. Desiderius Erasmus
  • Both were trying to navigate their way safely over a Christological precipice that threatened either to divide Christ too much (Zwingli) or unite his natures too closely (Luther).
  • The city where he had found the most physically and intellectually comfortable home he ever had, like most German cities, was strongly attracted to Luther and even more attracted to the more radical Zwinglian or Sacramentarian version of the Reformation. Desiderius Erasmus
  • Trouble developed with the bishop of Constance in 1522 when several of Zwingli's associates ate meat on a fast day.
  • In that case it would refer only to protesting estates, which included members who were not Lutheran e.g., Zwinglian imperial cities. Ferule & Fescue
  • My theory is that a Zwinglian redactor recovered some fragments of the works of the original Jim West and has edited them for publication in this new format. Zwinglian Redactor Hypothesis
  • The doctrine of Calvin and his adherents concerning the Lord's Supper is frequently characterized as a materially modified Zwinglianism. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Zwingli's denial of the "real presence" did not result in the neglecting of the sacrament that would characterize many of his followers in centuries to come.
  • Lutherans in America] there are almost all shades of dissent and descent, not only to that which is popularly called the Zwinglian, and of which the _Lutheran Observer_ may be considered the exponent, but yet lower to that which we may call, for want of a better name, Socinian. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
  • For Zwingli, Luther's affirmation of a human body's omnipresence inevitably negated the very essence of what a human body is entirely.
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