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PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1682 Online Library of Liberty: Selected Works of Huldrich Zwingli Table Of Contents Introduction. Ulrich Zwingli and the Reformation In Switzerland II.: Religion and Society In Late Medieval Switzerland III.: Ulrich Zwingli’s Early Life and Education, 1484-1518 IV.: Zwingli and Zürich: Theology and Theocracy, 1518-1531 Bibliographical Note Ulrich Zwingli Selected Works Preface to the 1901 Edition. Introduction to the 1901 Edition. Zwingli Selections. I.: Letter of Huldreich Zwingli to Erasmus Fabricius About the Proceedings, On the 7th, 8th and 9th of April, 1522, of the Delegates Sent to Zurich By the Bishop of Constance. * II.: Petition of Certain Preachers of Switzerland to the Most Reverend Lord Hugo, Bishop of Constance, That He Will Not Suffer Himself to Be Persuaded to Make Any Proclamation to the Injury of the Gospel, Nor Endure Longer the Scandal of Harlotry, But All III.: Acts of the Convention Held In the Praiseworthy City of Zurich On the 29th Day of January, On Account of the Holy Gospel—being a Disputation Between the Dignified and Honorable Representative From Constance and Huldrych Zwingli, Preacher of the Gosp The Sixty-seven Articles of Zwingli. About the Pope. About the Mass. About the Intercession of the Saints. About Good Works. Concerning Clerical Property. Concerning the Forbidding of Food. About Holiday and Pilgrimage. About Hoods, Dress, Insignia. About Order and Sects. About the Marriage of Ecclesiasts. About the Vow of Chastity. About the Ban. About Illegal Property. About Magistry. About Prayer. About Offence. About Remittance of Sin. About Purgatory. About the Priesthood. About the Cessation of Misusages. IV.: Ordinance and Notice. How Matters Concerning Marriage Shall Be Conducted In the City of Zurich. * PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1682 Online Library of Liberty: Selected Works of Huldrich Zwingli Explanation of This Ordinance. Exceptions to the Law. What Can Nullify and Break Up a Marriage. V.: Refutation of the Tricks of the Baptists By Huldreich Zwingli. * Huldreich Zwingli to All the Ministers of the Gospel of Christ. Huldreich Zwingli’s Refutation Against the Tricks of the Catabaptists. On the Baptism of Infants. Second Part.: Title of the Constitution of the Sect of the Catabaptists. Part Third. On Election. That the Apostles Baptized Infants. Appendix. Peroration. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1682 Online Library of Liberty: Selected Works of Huldrich Zwingli [Back to Table of Contents] INTRODUCTION. Ulrich Zwingli And The Reformation In Switzerland I A few individuals with distinctive, complex minds and troubled consciences dominate the early history of the Reformation.* The learning and wit of Erasmus, the personal religious anguish of Luther, the intense, practical efficiency and cosmopolitanism of Zwingli and Calvin, and the social fury of Thomas Müntzer often seem to dwarf not only the hundreds of lesser figures who in fact accomplished the ecclesiastical and social reforms of the sixteenth century, but to detach these men themselves from any recognizable social background and intellectual tradition. Ulrich Zwingli’s career is the history of the personal intellectual and religious growth of one such individual, yet it is also deeply rooted in the urban life of the city of Zürich and the more complex political history of the Reformation in Switzerland. Like Erasmus and Luther, Zwingli influenced the thought of reformers and Catholics alike, and the dissident strains of the Zürich reform movement influenced many communities and touched the reformation of England and Scotland. Yet the novelty of Zwingli’s ideas and the wide appeal some of them held for other reformers sometimes distract attention from his intense regional outlook, his influence on the city of Zürich, his uniquely Swiss career and personality. With Erasmus and Luther, Zwingli represents both traditional and novel strains of religious thought and programs for ecclesiastical and social reform. Far more than they, however, his life was bound up with the structure of a single city, and his importance becomes fully clear only in the context of his theocratic reforms in Zürich. Desiderius Erasmus (1466(?)-1536) was the greatest scholar of his day.1 His work on the textual criticism of Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers, his broad and lively secular learning, his scathing attacks on ecclesiastical and social abuses, and his unfulfilled concept of the regeneration of Christian society touched nearly all thinking men of the sixteenth century. Those whom his scholarly works did not or could not reach were stung by his mastery of scornful, withering Latin satire, a vein which was to contribute much to both the vernacular and the Latin literatures of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther (1483-1546), steeped in late medieval scholastic theology and possessed of an extraordinary personal religious sensibility, attacked Church dogma and ecclesiastical practices, not only on the basis of textual inaccuracies and institutional perversity, but also on the strength of his own profound reinterpretation of Pauline theology, firmly rooted in his own religious experience and his study of Scripture.2 The intellectual and institutional world in which these men lived and worked was that of late medieval Christendom. They reflected and extended that world, and the influence of their work helped to change it forever. Erasmus was a former monk released from his vows who practiced the still-novel career of an independent man of letters. Luther was a professor of theology at the new University of Wittenberg in Saxony. His theological development was highly personal, and he PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1682 Online Library of Liberty: Selected Works of Huldrich Zwingli concentrated his energies upon the reform of dogma and the eradication of institutional abuses. He became content, as he grew older, to leave the civil framework of reform in the hands of those powers which had ruled his world for several centuries—the princes of the independent German states. Both men’s thought reached out into a wider and more cosmopolitan world. Erasmus was the friend of popes, the emperor’s tutor, a correspondent of kings, prelates, civil servants, and scholars alike. Luther came quickly to the attention of the highest authorities in the Christian world, and only the support of his prince, the Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony, and the sluggishness of imperial institutions protected him from these powers. Both Erasmus and Luther began as characteristic types of late medieval culture, and the surroundings in which they lived and worked exerted a considerable influence on the development and the wide impact of their ideas. Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) shared at different times the interests of both Erasmus and Luther, and he too lived and worked in a social setting which was a recognizable type of late medieval society. Born in rural northeastern Switzerland, Zwingli spent his career as a reformer in Zürich, a small, independent city-state ruled by a commercial patriciate and extending its political and economic control across a wide countryside.