If you need to be reminded of who Ulrich Zwingli was—or if you never knew—don’t feel ashamed. At best, you probably learned of him as a foil to Martin Luther or precursor to John Calvin in a course ...

One can perhaps dam it up for awhile, but it is impossible to stop it." Ulrich Zwingli, the city chaplain, stood before the Zurich City Council in January 1523. The winds of reform had made their ...

“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 ...

At the urgent request of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, the reformer was to meet his rival Ulrich Zwingli. Historian and writer Christoph Becker has written a book about the town and the Protestant ...

Ulrich Zwingli has been remembered at an ecumenical service in Zurich, Switzerland. Zwingli quarrelled with Germany's Martin Luther about the ritual of communion. The Federation of Swiss ...

Zwingli was born in 1484. Two of his brothers were ecclesiastics. Ulrich was destined to follow the same calling. The lad had a strong musical talent, and the monks wanted him to enter the convent ...

The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at the Grossmünster in Zurich and sparks fierce discussions with his sermons against the grievances of the Catholic Church. Zwingli's ...