Huldrych Zwingli was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. He was born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism. In 1525, he introduced a new communion liturgy to replace the Mass. He also clashed with the Anabaptists, which resulted in their persecution. Historians have debated whether or not he turned Zürich into a theocracy.
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Huldrych Zwingli was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. He was born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system. In 1525, he introduced a new communion liturgy to replace the Mass. He also clashed with the Anabaptists, which resulted in their persecution. Historians have debated whether or not he turned Zürich into a theocracy. He formed an alliance of Reformed cantons which divided the Confederation along religious lines. He died on the battlefield and his legacy lives on in the confessions, liturgy, and church orders of the reformed churches of today. The Swiss Confederation in his time consisted of thirteen states as well as affiliated areas and common lordships. Unlike the modern state of Switzerland, which operates under a federal government, each of the thirteen cantons was nearly independent, conducting its own domestic and foreign affairs. Each canton formed its own alliances within and without the Confederation. This relative independence served as the basis for conflict when the various cantons divided between different confessional camps. The wider political environment in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries was also volatile. For centuries the relationship with the Confederation’s powerful neighbour, France, determined the foreign policies of the Switzerland. Within this environment, Swiss humanism had root in the confluence of humanism, patriotism and humanism.
The term fatherland began to take on meaning beyond a reference to an individual canton. At the same time, Renaissanceism, with emphasis on scholarship and emphasis on human values, had taken its root in this environment. The term ‘fatherland’ was used to refer to the Confederation as a whole, rather than to individual cantons. The Confederation had become de facto independent in 1499, after a succession of wars culminating in the Swabian War in1499. It had become a national consciousness, in which the term ‘Fatherland’ began to be used to describe an individual state or canton, not just a region or region. It was also the root of Swiss patriotism, with the term ‘Fatherland’ being used as a term for the Confederation’s national consciousness in the 16th and 17th centuries. The word ‘father’ is still used in the Swiss canton of Basel, where the Confederation was based, to mean ‘the father of the nation.’ The word fatherland was also used in reference to the Swiss Confederation as an individual nation, not a single state or region, as it was in the 17th and 18th century. The name of the Confederation is ‘Switzerland’, which means “the fatherland” or ‘The Father of the Nation’. It is also known as ‘Zürich’ in German and ‘Toggenburg’ or “Toggensburg” in English. He is buried in the village of Wildhausen, near Basel.
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