A Comprehensive Repository for Reformed History & Theology
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Zwingli openly criticized the sale of indulgences in Switzerland before Martin Luther’s writings ever reached Zurich.
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John Calvin was only 26 when he published the Institutes in 1536.
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Martin Bucer helped draft both the Wittenberg Concord and parts of the English Book of Common Prayer.
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The Marburg Colloquy failed over just one word: hoc est corpus meum.
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In 1522, Zwingli supported the “Affair of the Sausages,” a public act of eating meat during Lent that became a turning point in the Swiss Reformation.
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Johannes Oecolampadius was once a monk before becoming a Reformer.
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Ulrich Zwingli began preaching through the Gospel of Matthew verse by verse in Zurich in 1519, launching the Swiss Reformation
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The Reformation reached Scotland through the preaching of John Knox, who was once a galley slave for 19 months.
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Johannes Oecolampadius was a close friend of Erasmus before aligning with Zwingli during the Reformation
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Zwingli died in battle in 1531 at the Second War of Kappel, fighting as a chaplain for Zurich’s army.
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Many Reformers rejected church organs — Zwingli himself was an accomplished musician but had organs removed from Zurich churches.
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The Reformers emphasized congregational singing, with Calvin’s Geneva Psalter becoming a household worship tool
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Theodore Beza, Calvin’s successor, was also a Latin poet and playwright before becoming a theologian
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The Consistory in Geneva functioned like a church court, calling citizens to account for moral and doctrinal offenses.
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Zwingli supported using military force to defend the Reformation, believing that spiritual truth must sometimes be upheld with the sword.
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The Diet of Worms (1521) was not about food — it was the imperial trial where Luther refused to recant his teachings
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The Marburg Colloquy of 1529 failed over a single doctrine — whether Christ’s body was “truly” present in the Lord’s Supper
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Martin Bucer mentored John Calvin and helped him develop the pastoral model that Calvin later applied in Geneva
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After being exiled from Strasbourg, Bucer helped shape the Book of Common Prayer while teaching at Cambridge.
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Heinrich Bullinger succeeded Zwingli in Zurich and wrote more letters than any other Reformer — over 12,000 survive.
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Bullinger’s Second Helvetic Confession became one of the most widely adopted Reformed confessions in Europe.
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Peter Martyr Vermigli, an Italian Reformer, taught at Oxford and influenced England’s shift to Reformed theology under Edward VI.
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Vermigli debated transubstantiation at Oxford in 1549, helping move the English church toward Reformed views of the Eucharist.
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Wolfgang Capito worked closely with Bucer and advocated for unity between Lutheran and Reformed camps as early as 1524.
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After Zwingli fell in the Second War of Kappel, his body was quartered and burned by Catholic soldiers—who considered him a heretic in both church and state.
