Zurich
Anabaptists
The origins, convictions, conflicts, persecutions, and diverse legacy of the Anabaptists within the Radical Reformation.
Anna Reinhard
A biography of Anna Reinhard, wife of Ulrich Zwingli, whose faith and endurance sustained her family through the hardships of the Swiss Reformation.
Disputations
A chronological guide to major public theological disputations that shaped the Protestant Reformation from 1518 to 1554.
Heinrich Bullinger
A brief biographical sketch of Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), Zwingli’s successor at Zurich and author of the Second Helvetic Confession.
Hugo von Hohenlandenberg
The Bishop of Constance, in whose diocese Zurich lay, whose mandates against Zwingli’s preaching only hastened Zurich’s break with him.
Leo Jud
A short biography of Leo Jud (1482–1542), Zwingli’s friend and colleague at Zurich, translator for the Zurich Bible, and catechist.
Locarno Disputation (1549)
Locarno Disputation (1549): A congregation under pressure. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
Oswald Myconius
A short biography of Oswald Myconius (1488–1552), schoolmaster, Zwingli’s friend and first biographer, and chief pastor of Basel after Oecolampadius.
Peter Martyr Vermigli
A short biography of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562), the Florentine prior who fled the Inquisition and taught Reformed theology at Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich.
Radical Reformation Events
A timeline of major Radical Reformation events from the Wittenberg radicals and first rebaptisms to Mennonite, Hutterite, and Amish communities.
Radical Reformation Leaders
Biographical sketches of the leading founders, theologians, prophets, martyrs, and organizers of the Radical Reformation.
The Council of Geneva
The Council of Geneva of 1536: the Dispute de Rive, the suspension of the mass, and the vote of 21 May 1536 by which the citizens of Geneva swore to live according to the Gospel and the Word of God — two months before Calvin arrived.
The Second Helvetic Confession
The Second Helvetic Confession of 1566: Bullinger's private testament that became the most widely adopted of the Continental Reformed confessions, its thirty chapters, and its great sentence on the preaching of the Word of God.
The Zurich Disputations
The Zurich Disputations of 1523: Zwingli's Sixty-Seven Articles, the first Reformed confession; a city council that made Scripture the judge; and the question from Conrad Grebel that split the Reformation in two.
Ulrich Zwingli
A biographical sketch of Ulrich Zwingli (1484–1531), the reformer of Zurich: Glarus, Einsiedeln, the expository preaching of Matthew, the Sixty-Seven Articles, Marburg, and his death at Kappel.
Ulrich Zwingli’s Travels
An interactive chronological map of Ulrich Zwingli’s life from Wildhaus and Basel to Zurich and the battlefield at Kappel.
Zürich Baptism Disputations (1525)
Zürich Baptism Disputations (1525): The fracture over baptism. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
Zürich Disputations (1523)
Zürich Disputations (1523): Scripture before the city council. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
