Recovering the theology of the Swiss Reformation
Zürich, Geneva, Basel & beyond
History
Four seats of the sixteenth-century Reformation — each shaped by a different reformer, a different council, and a different argument about what the church should become.
Huldrych Zwingli · from 1519
Zürich
Where reform began as civic disputation, argued in the town hall rather than decreed from a pulpit.
Jean Calvin · from 1536
Geneva
The refugee city that became, in Knox's phrase, "the most perfect school of Christ" — and the most disciplined.
Johannes Oecolampadius · from 1523
Basel
Printing presses, Erasmus's library, and the quiet reformer who out-argued the city's council.
Zacharius Ursinus & Caspar Olevianus · 1563
Heidelberg
Beyond the Confederacy, an Electorate on the Rhine adopts the Reformed cause and writes its catechism.