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Zwingli Ulrich or Huldreich . 1484--1531, Swiss leader of the Reformation, based in Zurich. He denied the Eucharistic presence, holding that the Communion was merely a commemoration of Christ's death How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| More and more the theories and practices of John Calvin and the more fundamentalist Ulrich Zwingli were finding favour among the gentry and in the great universities of Cambridge and Oxford. His struggle with the Habsburgs led to into an alliance with Ulrich Zwingli and produced two works that mark Gaismair as one of the most gifted political and military thinkers of the sixteenth century. At the gathering, Ulrich Zwingli, the founder of Protestantism in German Switzerland and the first Reformed theologian, argued that the Eucharist is not a reenactment of Christ's sacrifice but a memorial of that sacrifice. |
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