Zwingliana

Titelblatt, Impressum, Inhalt

N.N. — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Konrad Schmids Predigt von 1522 in Luzern

Beat Hänni, Ruth Jörg — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The sermon by Konrad Schmid held on 24 March 1522 on the occasion of the procession to the Musegg in Lucerne in front of several thousand listeners, is the oldest printed sermon of the Swiss Reformation. It was printed by its preacher himself. It appears here in a slightly normalized copy with a translation into today’s German and a theological historical classification. Schmid was attacked by Lucerne clergy and defends himself in this pamphlet Antwurt and tries to continue the conversation about the new faith in Lucerne. The sermon expresses the findings of the Zurich Reformation in a concise and committed manner. It provides insights into the early Reformation preaching culture in Switzerland and testifies to Schmid’s great homiletic skills and to his artful language. At the Musegg – 15 days after the sausage dinner in Zurich – Schmid brought up many topics that became important for Reformed theology and the church. Schmid tries to gain the hearts of the listeners and, despite his partly revolutionary message, builds bridges to them. The sermon proves to be an often forgotten early key text of the Swiss Reformation.

In der «Schule göttlicher Weisheit»

Luca Baschera — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bullinger uses the term philosophia Christi in the prefaces to his Commentary on 1 John and the collected edition of his commentaries on the New Testament epistles to describe what his readers should expect to learn from the Bible. This article first explores Bullinger’s use of the term ‘philosophy of Christ’ in the corpus of his commentaries. Next, it sketches the development of the term from its origin in the patristic period up to the time of Dutch humanist Erasmus in the early modern period. A consideration of the multifaceted influence Erasmus and his understanding of philosophia Christi exerted on Bullinger and, more broadly, on the Zurich Reformed milieu concludes the discussion.

Wie eine 1608 wegen Blasphemie verhängte Exekution das eidgenössische Bündnis auf den Prüfstand stellte

Max Schiendorfer — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In September 1608, Martin Duvoysin, a reformed citizen of Basel, was accused of blasphemous speech in Sursee, Lucerne, and sentenced to death by beheading and cremation. Three Bernese who happened to be passing through witnessed the pronouncement of sentence and the execution which took place immediately afterwards. They were convinced that this sentence was not free of confessional resentment and that Martin Duvoysin had fallen innocently into the clutches of Sursee’s arbitrary justice. This assessment of the incident was made public by their spokesman Gabriel Hermann in two pamphlets, both of which were reprinted several times and caused a great uproar. The Basel church leader Johann Jakob Grynäus was also deeply convinced of Duvoysin’s innocence, which he expressed in a sermon that was also published in print. The grave accusation of judicial murder that circulated widely as a result of these writings forced the Sursee and Lucerne authorities to vehemently counter the accusation, which initially led to a months-long exchange of blows with the Basel and Bern councillors through diplomatic chan-nels, before Lucerne also had its justifications and counterattacks spread in several printed publications. The danger of a further escalation to the point of a full-blown quarrel between the two confessions was certainly in the air, and a Swiss Confederation divided into two camps would have had to worry seriously about its independence. It took the arbitration of the allies, who were not involved in the conflict, at the «gemeine Tagsatzung» of June 1609 to avert the threatening scenario just in time.

Schweizerische Drucke in den bürgerlichen frühneuzeitlichen Privatbibliotheken in den Prager Städten

Olga Fejtová, Jiří Pešek — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Based on an analysis of the probate inventories of the burghers of the New Town of Prague in the 17th century, the paper identifies religious and secular literature produced by Swiss printers in Prague burgher private libraries and examines its occurrence in the context of the development of a multi-confessional society in Bohemia before the Thirty Years’ War and subsequently in the phase of the recatholization policy towards a mono-confessional Catholic society. The prints of Swiss printers are analysed in the context of their contemporary offer on the Central European book market in Frankfurt a. M., which was mainly imported to Prague by Nuremberg merchants, and also in the context of the local Prague market, which offered titles by Swiss authors in translation. The reception of Swiss printed literature in the Prague towns is compared with the situation in one of the typical royal towns in Bohemia. The role of the Unity of Brothers in the reception of the production of Swiss printers is also taken into account.

Donald K. McKim / Jim West, Heinrich Bullinger: An Introduction to His Life and Theology, 2022

Benedikt Brunner — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.

Reinhard Bodenmann et al. (Hg.), Heinrich Bullinger. Briefwechsel, Bd. 20, 2022

Amy Nelson Burnett — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.

Peter Niederhäuser, Eine Stadt im Wandel: Winterthur und die Reformation, 2020

Christine Christ-von Wedel — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.

Christian Link, Die Theologie Calvins im Rahmen der europäischen Reformation, 2021

Victor E. d’Assonville — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.

Thomas K. Kuhn / Martin Sallmann (Hg.), Ulrich Gäbler. Aufbrüche: Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Geschichte des europäischen und amerikanischen Protestantismus, zum 80. Geburtstag, 2022

Peter Opitz — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.

126. Jahresbericht des Zwinglivereins über das Jahr 2022

N.N. — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.

Personenregister

N.N. — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No abstract available.