Development of the Reformation under Zwingli and a Discussion of His Teaching on the Lord's Supper

The following essay was submitted for the Philip H Rand Memorial Prize in January 1994. Introduction Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), The Zurich Reformer and 'third man of the Reformation1 bequeathed to the early Reform move ment an impetus which is often unrecognised and ignored and, more seriously, misrepresented. The distortions of history regarding Zwingli only serve to place him in the company of his Reformer colleagues, Luther and Calvin, and indicate that he, too, had a separate theology...