- University of Bristol,
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Jon Balserak
University of Bristol, Humanities, Faculty Member
This paper examines early Reformed thought on the nature of the Christian church. The paper will look at the reforming work in Zurich of figures like Leo Jud, Oswald Myconius, and Heinrich Bullinger, but its primary focus will be on... more
This paper examines early Reformed thought on the nature of the Christian church. The paper will look at the reforming work in Zurich of figures like Leo Jud, Oswald Myconius, and Heinrich Bullinger, but its primary focus will be on Ulrich Zwingli, whose writings and leadership in the 1520s and early 1530s (until his untimely death in 1531) were pivotal to developing distinctively Reformed emphases on the church. In assessing his work, the paper will also glance briefly at the reforming work seen in cities such as Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Mulhouse, and Geneva and the writings of figures like Johannes Oecolampadius and Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt.