Church History Exam #2: Reformation in Switzerland

when does Ulrich Zwingli become “people’s priest” in Zurich

1519

what is the sausage incident

a movement that Zwingli started

* publicly eat sausage during the Lenten fast

Zwingli beliefs

iconoclastic

* removal of statues, paintings, organs, crosses, etc.

“primitivist hermenutic”

* primitive NT church sets a standards for later churches

what does Zwingli and Luther have conflict over

Eucharist

* Luther: “there is real physical presence of Christ in the bread and wine”
* Zwingli: “the supper is a memorial of Christ’s death”

what are Luther and Zwingli’s stance on forgiveness of sins

Luther: “eucharist is a means of grace through which we receive forgiveness”

Zwingli: forgiveness happens in the spiritual realm and has nothing to do with tangible things”

when does Zwingli die

1531, in the battle defending Zurich against Catholic cantons of Switzerland

Heinrich Bollinger

continues the protestant reform

what does the anabaptists do with Zwingli’s “primitivist hermeneutic”

“radical” reformation

* wanted to re-create the original church
* looked to early day christianity as a model

which anabaptists refused/banned children baptisms

Conrad grebel, Felix manz, and George blaurock

Luther vs. Anabaptist’s marks of a true church

Luther

* word purely preached
* sacraments righty administered

anabaptists

* word purely preached
* sacraments righty administered
* discipline used to keep church pure

when was John Calvin life span

1509-1564

John Calvin’s major work

institutes of the christian religion

when was John Calvin’s institute of the christian religion first published

1536

two motifs in John Calvin’s thought

God’s distance

* God is beyond our grasp
* predestination

God’s accommodation

why does John Calvin believe in predestination

* finds it in scripture
* explains why some are christians and some aren’t
* accentuates graciousness of salvation