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Zwingliana : Beiträge zur Geschichte Zwinglis, der Reformation und des Protestantismus in der Schweiz publishes articles on the history of Protestantism in Switzerland and its influence. Zwingliana: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Protestantismus in der Schweiz und seiner Ausstrahlung was founded in 1897 as a academic journal and at the same time a journal for the members of the Zwingli Society (Zwingliverein). The journal is sponsored by the Zwingliverein in conjunction with the Swiss Reformation Studies Institute at the University of Zurich. Zwingliana provides free electronic access to its issues with a three year delay.
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The Globethics library contains articles of Zwingliana as of vol. 1(1897) to current (3 years embargo).
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125 Jahre Zwingliverein: Eine «freie Vereinigung von Männern» – Zur Vorgeschichte und Gründungsmotivation des Zwinglivereins von 1872–1897The Zwingli Association celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. In 1897, the founding fathers of the association explicitly referred to a Zwingli exhibition in January 1884 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Huldrych Zwingli’s birthday. However, the dedication of a Zwingli monument was planned for this date. But this ceremony did not take place until 1885, one and a half years later than originally intended. This article explores the question of how the Zwingli monument and its genesis are connected to the Zwingli exhibition of 1884. Which circles and their specific national or ecclesiastical-theological interests were involved in the process of finding the monument? Special attention is paid to the process of choosing between the Zwingli models made by the sculptors Ferdinand Schlöth and Heinrich Natter in the “Concours.” How come today Zurich is a “weighted Zwingli,” as Alexander Schweizer expressed his disappointment at the selection process? The Zwingli monument and its possible theological-historical impact are also discussed. The book concludes with a look at the Zwingli museum of 1897, from which today’s Zwingli Association has evolved.
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Mit Liebe und Sanftmut eines Besseren belehren: Die lange Reformation als anhaltende Krise der AutoritätThis article examines the conflict between Antoine Lescaille and the two pastors Léonard Constant and Jacques Couet of the French church of Basel. In 1590, Lescaille criticized the pastors’ teachings on the doctrine of justification. He expected to be properly instructed on his alleged errors and mistakes subsequently, however, the pastors insisted that as a layman he could not truly understand the complexity of the subject to begin with. Rather than exhaustively explain the theological doctrine of the Justification, the pastors approached Lescaille with «love and humility,» hoping this would help restore his trust in the French church and the pastors’ teachings. By examining this conflict and the French church’s strategies to handle Lescaille, this article illuminates how the long Reformation was driven by a clerical institutionalization of the Protestant church by the end of the 16th century, and how the long Reformation must be understood as an ongoing crisis of authority.
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Der Gelehrte, der Schüler und ein Gimpelpaar: Ein vergessener griechischer Brief von Conrad Gessner an Johannes Pontisella III.In the collection of funeral poems (epicedia) for Conrad Gessner published by Josias Simler in 1566 along with a biography of the deceased, two distichs stand out. They were penned by then 14-year-old Johannes Pontisella; one in Latin, one in Greek. An inconspicuous letter draft from Gessner to 12-year-old Pontisella in manuscript ZBZ Ms C 50a has recently been discovered to further document the relationship between Gessner and young Pontisella. This essay outlines the biography of Johannes Pontisella III. (1552–1622) and his family, who originated in the Val Bregaglia. It illustrates the friendship between Johannes Pontisella II. (ca. 1510–1574) and Gessner, which was based, among other things, on their common interest in botanical and zoological matters, as well as the relationship of Pontisella III. with Zurich’s scholarly society. It furthermore discusses the tradition of humanist Greek funeral poetry (epicedia) and epistolography of the time in general and for Gessner in particular, analyzing his letter to Pontisella III. on a linguistic level and within the context of education in the 16th-century Grisons. The description of “mountain bullfinches” in Gessner’s letter is discussed in the context of his ornithological studies. A bilingual, annotated edition of Pontisella’s epicedia and Gessner’s letter draft concludes the essay.
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Jon D. Wood, Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich, 2019No abstract available.
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Urs B. Leu / Sandra Weidmann, Huldrych Zwingli’s Private Library, 2019No abstract available.
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Titelblatt, Impressum, InhaltNo abstract available
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Martin Rothkegel, The Swiss Brethren: A Story in Fragments, 2021No abstract available.
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PersonenregisterNo abstract available.
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PersonenregisterNo abstract available.
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Claude-Eric Descoeudres (Hg.), Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam: Adagia / Sprichwörter, 2021No abstract available.
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Florian Hitz et al. (Hg.), Ulrich Campell: Das alpine Rhätien, 2021No abstract available.
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Zurich and Trent Viewed Especially Through Bullinger: In Particular, His Ecclesias evangelicas (1552)As Antistes of Zurich, Heinrich Bullinger took the initiative to preach as well as to write critically and incisively about the Council of Trent both for the ministers and the political leaders of Zurich. For more than ten years he preached or wrote on the value, or otherwise, of church councils and of Trent, in particular. His Ecclesias evangelicas written for George I reveals his rhetorical skills as he sought to convince and encourage him to embrace the faith of the evangelical churches in the face of the tradition and teaching of Rome inter alia concerning Scripture, the papacy, salvation, tradition and the sacraments.
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Hübsch, keusch und fruchtbar: Theologie der Ehe, Geschlechterrollen und Frauenbildung in volkssprachlichen Eheschriften des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts – Ein Vergleich der Ehetraktate von Albrecht von Eyb, Martin Luther und Heinrich BullingerThe implications of the Reformation on the roles of women in marriage and society, as well as the education of women, are currently diversely discussed. In this essay, three different vernacular theological texts are portrayed and compared. Those printed texts address married life and are written during the early modern era by men to the mixed-sex audience. During the early modern era, the Reformation brought changes to the legal and social order of marriage. Albrecht von Eyb’s Ehebüchlein from 1472 was a popular tract in its time and stands exemplary for a pre-Reformation view on marriage, gender roles, and the education of women. It is compared to Martin Luther’s Vom ehelichen Leben, one of Luther’s early writings on matrimony, written in the midst of the Reformation endeavors in 1522. The third text chosen for comparison is the tract Christlich Eestand, which was written by the reformed theologian Heinrich Bullinger in 1540, during the time when the new Ehegericht (marriage court) in Zürich has been established for fifteen years. The tract therefore stands exemplary for the consolidation period of the Reformation. The three tracts are compared in a chronological order along the contextual topics: institution of marriage in paradise, sexual ethics, fertility, Ehezwecklehre (the ends of marriage), the ideal man and woman, gender roles in marriage, and women’s education. The high regard the three authors hold for married life is rooted in the biblical story of the creation of Adam and Eve. In the area of marriage theology, gender roles and women’s education, too, there are (early modern) similarities, but also major and minor differences. Furthermore, the ideals of man and woman, sexual ethics, gender roles in marriage, and women’s education partly dependent (on the) different marriage theologies of Albrecht von Eyb, Martin Luther, and Heinrich Bullinger.
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Die Zürcher Hexenprozesse und die ReformatorenIn the archives in Zurich, there are 230 sorcery trials during 1570 and 1630, among which 80 trials are death sentences. During 1521 and 1531, when Zwingli’s opinion was of dominant importance, only one witch was sentenced under a particular circumstance. Zwingli never addressed contemporary magic, sorcery, or the pact with the devil, which were the main accusations that the witches were blamed for. He even avoided speaking of witches in his exegesis of Exodus 22:17 (18). Bullinger was less reserved. He certainly believed in witchcraft, blamed witches of the pact with the devil, and called for death sentences. However, though he had already discussed sorcery in his Decades in the middle of the sixteenth century, only twenty years later, the number of sorcery trials increased in Zurich, while the fear of demonic attacks caused many witch hunts in the Little Ice Age all over Europe.
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"Imprimée de différentes manières": The Gallican Confession and its First Printed Editions (1559?–1561)This paper analyses the first printed editions of the Gallican Confession (agreed upon at the synod of Paris in May 1559) and formulates a hypothesis on the context in which they were published and disseminated. Analysis is based on abridged editions of the Confession in Latin and in French, printed in Geneva and Strasbourg, and featuring a preface authored by pastor Antoine de Chandieu. Although the ministers assembled in Paris in 1559 promulgated a confession in 40 articles, only 35 articles were included in these editions (which are dated 1559, but were ostensibly printed in the first half of 1560). These editions in 35 articles were abridged versions of the ‘full’ Gallican Confession, and this abridgment responded to polemical purposes and political expediency connected to the failure of the conspiracy of Amboise. This paper also offers some remarks upon the decision to abandon these 35-articles editions in 1561, probably with a view to the calling of the e´tats de Pontoise and the colloquy of Poissy.