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The Reformation in Switzerland was contemporaneous with, but independent of, the German Reformation, and resulted in the formation of the Reformed communion as distinct from the Lutheran. In all the essential principles and doctrines, except that on the mode of Christ's presence in the Eucharist, the Helvetic Reformation agreed with the German; but it departed farther from the received traditions in matters of government, discipline, and worship. It naturally divides itself into three periods, -- the Zwinglian from 1516 to 1531; the Calvinistic, to the death of Calvin in 1564; and the period of Bullinger and Beza, to the close of the sixteenth century. The first belongs mainly to the German cantons; the second, to the French; the third, to both jointly.

Subcategories

• Beza, Theodore
• Bullinger, Heinrich
• Calvin, John
• Farel, Guillaume
• Oecolampadius, John
• Zwingli, Ulrich

Resources in This Category

• Calvin and Geneva

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/13.html
  A history of the city and Calvin's influence on it.

• History of Protestantism in Switzerland

  http://www.doctrine.org/history/HPv1b8.htm
  Book 8 of Wylie's History of Protestantism from 1516 to the establishment of the church in Zurich in 1525.

• Johannes Oecolampadius: Lighthouse of the Reformation

  http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/johoceop.pdf
  An article on this early reformer, the reformer of Basel.

• REFORM IN FRENCH SWITZERLAND

  http://www.christianchronicler.com/history1/reform_in_french_switzerland.html
  A brief history of Calvin and his supporters and opponents.

• Reformation in Switzerland

  http://www.zum.de/whkmla/period/reformation/swsref.html
  Brief history beginning with pre-reformation, continuing with the reformation in Zurich with Zwingli and then the reformation in Geneva with Calvin.

• Resources on Calvin, Farel and The Reformation in Geneva

  http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/calvrsc.htm
  Many links to the history, writings and theology of these reformers.

• The Early Swiss Reformers

  http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/swsrefs.pdf
  Short biographies of some of the lesser known Swiss reformers.

• The Early Swiss Reformers

  http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/swissrsc.htm
  A page of links to Swiss Reformation resources.

• The History of Protestantism

  http://www.doctrine.org/history/HPv2b11.htm
  Book 11 of Wylie's works covering Protestantism in Switzerland from its establishment in Zurich (1525) to the death of Zwingli (1531).

 

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