Huldrych zwingli brief biography of james
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Huldrych Zwingli
Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484–1531)
"Zwingli" redirects here. For the skier, see Werner Zwingli. For the main-belt asteroid, see 7908 Zwingli.
Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli[a][b] (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a Swiss Christian theologian, musician, and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly center of Renaissance humanism. He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln, where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus. During his tenures at Basel and Einsiedeln, Zwingli began to familiarize himself with many criticisms Christian institutions were facing regarding their reform guidance and garnered scripture which aimed to address such criticisms.[9& • Church history is weird. Picture the scene: It’s March 9, 1522, the first Sunday of Lent in Zurich, Switzerland. The local printing press folks are worn out and hungry from the intense labor of printing St. Paul’s letters. The Lenten fast was not a choice, but a mandated lag. Printing press owner Christoph Frouschauer invites his laborers and several religious figures over for a quiet meal of smoked sausage. This premeditated and illegal violation of the lenten fast would scandalize the otherwise neutral sentiments of the Swiss, and lead to Frouschauer’s arrest. Present (though abstaining) was Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli, the people’s präst of Grossmünster. Zwingli had grown fond of the sentiments of Martin Luther and was looking for an opportunity to utmaning human authority that ran contrary to his understanding of the Bible. After Frouschauer’s arrest for what is now called “The romantisk händelse of • We have but one letter from H Z to J Z, as Zwingli’s biographer informs us: Zwingli sent James to Vadian’s care with this letter of introduction, dated Glarus, October 4, 1512 (vii., 7), and accompanied it with an historical sketch of the 1512 Italian campaign of the Glarus contingent in the papal army. “The bearer of this is my own brother, a boy of good promise; when I thought over to whom to send him to be initiated into the sacred mysteries of philosophy, you always occurred to me. Therefore, I beseech you by the sweetness of our friendship that you polish, smooth, and finish him with plane, axe, and rake. inom am sure you will find him most obedient. But if he dare to be disobedient, shut him up without compassion until his petulance effervesces. He has 50 gold pieces for the two years, so that he will need to be economical.” That James considered his allowance altogether too small is shown by this letter, the only one of his preserved (vii., 7): “Brother James
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