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- Powerpoint presentation
- D’Aubigné’s For God and His People is an accessible and affordable introduction to Zwingli; it is a 19th-century work and is very pro-Protestant. G.R. Potter’s Zwingli is the best modern scholarly biography.
- William Estep’s The Anabaptist Story is a sympathetic portrayal of the 16th-century Anabaptists that provides connections to their modern descendants, such as the Amish.
- The Schleitheim Statement (1527)
- Alister McGrath’s A Life of John Calvin may be the best one-volume biography out there.
- Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Resources related to the Michael Servetus case
Swiss Reformation and Anabaptists – Quiz
- Switzerland is divided into thirteen districts known as ___________.
- Zwingli and Luther attempted to come to theological consensus at the _______________.
- Fighting between Swiss Protestants and Roman Catholics was ended by the ______________ after Zwingli’s death on the battlefield.
- The leading Anabaptist prior to his execution in 1526 was __________________.
- Anabaptists acquired a bad reputation throughout Europe as a result of the Anabaptist takeover of the city of _____________ in 1534.
- Scholarly attention on John Calvin’s theology often focuses his doctrine of the ____________ of God, which implies predestination of the individual to heaven or hell.
- Calvin’s doctrine of the _______________ left the door open for later Protestant writers to develop a theory of resistance to political authority.
- Identify at least three countries or regions where Calvinism had a major impact.
- cantons
- Marburg Colloquy
- Peace of Kappel
- Conrad Grebel
- Münster
- sovereignty
- lesser magistrates
- Switzerland; Netherlands; Scotland; England; France; British colonies in America