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Huldrych Zwingli: The Swiss Reformer1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

W. P. Stephens
Affiliation:
Department of Church History, King's College, Old Aberdeen AB9 2UB

Extract

All figures in the past suffer from their interpreters, who too often see them as the embodiment or antithesis of their own position. Zwingli is no exception in this. He has in turn been welcomed as the liberal among the reformers or repudiated as the rationalist among them. He has been portrayed as the heroic Swiss patriot dying on the field of battle or dismissed as the preacher turned politician who took the sword and deservedly perished by it.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1986

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References

1 An inaugural lecture as Professor of Church History at the University of Aberdeen.