The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate, Mark Reust, and the population...
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inaugurated in 1909 in Geneva, Switzerland. Key individuals, events, and documents of the Protestant Reformation are depicted therein in statues and bas-reliefs...
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Old Swiss Confederacy, and thus initiated the Reformation in Switzerland. At the time of the reformation, the city of Zürich was mainly dominated by the...
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The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century...
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Martin Luther and many others. Beginning in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, the Radical Reformation gave birth to many radical Protestant groups...
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Copenhagen-based House of Oldenburg Reformation in Switzerland, the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, during the 1520s Scottish Reformation, part of the wider Protestant...
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Wars of Kappel (category Wars involving Switzerland)
Catholic and the Protestant cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland. The first conflict saw the establishment of the...
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Huldrych Zwingli (category Swiss military personnel killed in action)
was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system....
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The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate...
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History of Reformed Christianity (redirect from Calvinism in Germany)
with the Reformation in Switzerland when Huldrych Zwingli began preaching what would become the first form of the Reformed doctrine in Zürich in 1519. Zwingli...
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Continental Reformed Protestantism (category Reformed denominations in Europe)
British Isles or elsewhere in the world. Notably, their theology is largely derived from the Swiss Reformation, as Switzerland (specifically Geneva and...
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and in the Italian Wars gained territory south of the Alps from the Duchy of Milan. The Swiss Reformation divided the Confederacy and resulted in a drawn-out...
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Second War of Kappel (category Civil wars in Switzerland)
armed conflict in 1531 between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland. The peace concluded...
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ended the Thirty Years' War. The Swiss Reformation divided the confederates into Reformed and Catholic parties, resulting in internal conflict from the 16th...
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Geneva Bible (category Reformation in Switzerland)
issued; the last probably in 1644. The first Bible printed in Scotland was a Geneva Bible, which was first issued in 1579. In fact, the involvement of...
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First War of Kappel (category Civil wars in Switzerland)
armed conflict in 1529 between the Protestant and the Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland. It ended, without...
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Schleitheim Confession (category Reformation in Switzerland)
statement of Anabaptist principles, by a group of Swiss Anabaptists in 1527 in Schleitheim, Switzerland. The real title is Brüderliche vereynigung etzlicher...
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The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland. It forms...
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of sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Because of persecution, they lived in community and fled to Prussia, Russia...
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Helvetic Confessions (category Reformation in Switzerland)
Consensus in Switzerland" in Archive for Reformation History 83: 154–179, p. 178 Bullinger, Heinrich (1866). Confessio Helvetica posterior (in Latin). sn...
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Wickiana (category Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2024)
archives pertaining to a particular epoch, namely that of the Reformation in Switzerland. Johann Jakob Wick (1522-1588), after whom the collection is named...
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Soon, the Reformed tradition began in Switzerland under the leadership of Huldrych Zwingli in 1519. The Reformation evolved into a large debate involving...
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Federer family (category Swiss families)
a gold cross atop a white feather on a red shield. In 1525, during the Reformation in Switzerland, the population of Berneck converted from Catholicism...
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History of Geneva (redirect from Calvinist rule of Switzerland)
(1922). History of Switzerland, 1499-1914. The University Press. p. 136. Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin...
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The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority...
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Counter-Reformation (Latin: Contrareformatio), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response...
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Prophesying (preaching service) (category Reformation in Switzerland)
institution of "prophesyings" dated back to the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, and Huldrych Zwingli who started them. The use of the word "prophecy"...
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Jakob Ceporin (category Swiss Protestants)
in Ingolstadt, knowledge of which would prove useful to him when he later became an inhabitant of Zürich, a stronghold of the Protestant Reformation in...
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Reformation (also known as the Czech Reformation or Hussite Reformation), preceding the Reformation of the 16th century, was a Christian movement in the...
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Publications. Christoffel, Raget (1858), Zwingli: or, The Rise of the Reformation in Switzerland, Edinburgh: T & T Clark. Grob, Jean (1883), The Life of Ulric...
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