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Huldrych Zwingli may have been one of the most influential people to ever live on this planet. His contributions to the Protestant faith made many people break away from the big names such as: John Calvin and Martin Luther. He talked, along with the others, on the subject of the Bible. Zwingli insisted that the Bible was the only source to be used to express the Christian way of life. Sticking with this opinion, he went on to study at Basel, Bern, and Vienna before finally becoming a Roman Catholic priest.
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He persuaded church leaders, and the people of the church in Zurich, that things not prescribed in the Bible had no place in the Church's way. Zwingli taught that the Eucharist is very symbolic and that it should be kept that way and not to be done again. He denied the presence of Christ in the host. He also rejected the term sacrament, and used pledge instead. Baptism; for example, was not a sacrament in his mind. He was also more conscious of social obligations and he persisted in people helping the poor, but having said that, he also thought that the Christian community should be the ones putting forth money and food for these people.

Zwingli had a very simple theology. Unlike Calvin and Luther, who wrote down everything that came to mind, Zwingli had a very simple theme in his arguments. His theme of Protestantism was based on what was in the New or Old Testament. If it wasn't written down in words, it was just simply not practiced. He emphasized on the divineness of Christ. He taught that Christ was all divine and not human at all. He preached against the saints, the celibacy of the church, and the tradition of fasting. People said that he had a sense of patriotism, that neither Calvin or Luther had.

In 1519, he was appointed to the Great Minister church in Zurich. Because of his different beliefs in the Protestant faith, their soon was rifts between Luther, who was once his partner. He was often called "The Third Man of the Reformation". He became the leader of Zurich and all the people living in that town were followers of his views. But because of the tensions between Zurich and Swiss's Catholic states led to war. Zwingli refused Catholic confessor and was killed by a sword in battle.

Zwingli was defiantly a major influence in this world and the views of Christ. Zwingli could be labeled as a martyr, because he died for what he believed in. He should also be seen as a role model for breaking away from a popular group and making a group that was exactly what he wanted. Today, people who do want to do something different, not just what everyone else is doing, can follow their heart and their dreams. He didn't follow the faith he was born into, but the one he made up and he could call his own. If you are born into the Catholic faith for example and you do not like its ways, follow what religious views you believe in and then you will live a happy and fulfilled life. **

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 * He insisted that the Bible was the source of the Christian way of life, not the Church.
 * Zwingli studied in Basel, Bern, and Vienna before becoming a Roman Catholic priest.
 * He was appointed in 1519 to the Great Minster church in Zurich.
 * In 1522, he said the Bible, not Catholic tradition, was to be the only source of Christian authority, and he persuaded church leaders and the churches people of Zurich that things not prescribed in the Bible had no place in the church's life.
 * In 1524, pictures, statues and other items were removed from the city's churches.
 * The biggest controversery was over the nature of the Lord's Supper.
 * At a 1529 debate, the Marburg Colloquy, Luther told the audience that Christ is literally present in the bread and wine. Zwingli said that its is very symbolic meal and should be kept that way.
 * These differences created rifts between what came to be known as the Lutheran and Reformed branches of Protestantism.
 * Tensions between Zurich and Switzerland's Catholic states led to war. Zwingl refused a Catholic confessor and was killed by sword in battle.

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 * Zwingli rejected the term sacrament, and used ceremony or a pledge. Baptism to him was a pledge not a sacrament. He criticized Catholics by saying that Baptism was a way of taking away circumcism from the new borns.
 * His reputation as a stern, stolid reformer is the opposite of the fact that he was very funny and used fables, spoofing, and jokes in his writings.
 * He was more conscious of social obligations than Luther and he really believed that the masses of people would accept a government led by God’s word.
 * He always promoted assistance to the poor.
 * He believed the people that should be caring for the poor were to be a Christian community.
 * He was often called the "Third Man of the Reformation".

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 * In Zwingli's time at the school in Basel, he was taught by Heinrich Wolflin.
 * In 1500 Zwingli entered the University of Vienna, to study philosophy.
 * In 1506 he received his master's degree and was ordained priest by the bishop of Constance.
 * His preaching was so impressive that he was asked to become the vicar of the Grossmunster in Zurich.
 * At Zurich, the Swiss reformation began
 * He preached against the veneration of saints, celibacy of the church, and fasting.
 * He had a sense of patriotism, that Luther and Calvin did not have.
 * Zwingli denied the presence of Jesus in the host and insisted that the Eucharist was not the repeating event of Christ's sacrifice, but rather a respectful remembrance.


 * Zwingli brought to Luther's revolution an education steeped in northern Humanism, particularly that of Erasmus. He was monumentally popular in Zurich for his opposition to Swiss mercenary service in foreign wars and his attacks on indulgences; he was, in fact, as significant a player in the critique of indulgences as Luther himself.
 * Zwingli tends to be passed over quickly in world history textbooks for several reasons; the most glaring reason is the simplicity of his theology.
 * In comparison to Luther and Calvin, both of whom wrote a stultifying amount of stuff on every topic under the sun, Zwingli stuck to a single theme throughout his arguments and writing.
 * This simple theology would form the background for the development of the more strict and radical forms of Protestantism and can still be heard in Christian churches around the globe.
 * Zwingli's rather uncomplex theology could be described as the single most important shift in religious culture in the sixteenth century.
 * Zwingli's theology and morality were based on a single principle: if the Old or New Testament did not say something explicitly and literally, then no Christian should believe or practice it.
 * This was the basis of his critique of indulgences. In 1522, for instance, Zwingli mounted a protest against the fast at Lent, a standard Catholic practice. His argument: the New Testament says absolutely nothing about fasting at Lent so the practice is inherently unchristian.
 * While Zwingli ambitiously set out to build perhaps the most strict Protestant society, in religious, social, and moral terms, he soon parted company with Martin Luther over major doctrinal issues.
 * Zwinglian Protestantism, as well as its spiritual inheritors, overwhelmingly stressed the divine nature of Christ.
 * Jesus Christ was the divine; the Catholic insistence on the human nature of Christ was an incorrect and dangerous reading of the Christ event in history.
 * Any implicit suggestion in the practice of the Eucharist that Christ was human must be rejected.
 * Zwingli, for his part, thought Luther to be hopelessly enmeshed in unsupportable Catholic doctrine.
 * Their meeting in Marburg itself represents the last point in the Reformation at which the movement could have preserved some unity.
 * After Marburg, unification of the various Protestant movements became impossible, and the new church, which Luther believed would become another, more pure universal church, fragmented into a thousand separate, quarrelling pieces within a few decades.

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