Something Bold For God: Huldyrch Zwingli at 500

Something Bold For God: Huldyrch Zwingli at 500

A Reformation Day Lecture by Dr. Byron G. Curtis

About The Lecture

The year 2019 marks 500 years since the start of the Swiss Reformation. On January 1, 1519, Fr. Huldrych Zwingli, "People's Priest" at the Great Minster Church of Zurich, began preaching through the New Testament, page by page, starting at Matthew 1. This resulted in the spread of Protestantism in a new, non-Lutheran form, tagged by Lutherans themselves as "Reformed".

By 1525, Zwingli and his beloved Zurich was thoroughly Protestant, and the Reformed Christianity became a major force in Christendom. Cruelly murdered after a lost battle on October 11, 1531, Zwingli's task of reforming the church fell to others. In 1536, that task was taken up in Geneva by the scholarly pastor John Calvin; and by 1560 in Scotland, by the fiery preacher John Knox. That history makes Zwingli the world's first Presbyterian. 

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Dr. Byron G. Curtis is professor of Biblical Studies at Geneva College, where he has taught Hebrew language, Old Testament Studies, Christian Theology, and the History of Christianity since 1991.

In 2017 he served as the special lecturer for the Luther 500 in seven cities. Huldrych Zwingli is the topic of his forthcoming article in the Reformed Presbyterian Witness, The First Presbyterian was Scottish Swiss.

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