His conversion experience changed the direction of his life and convinced him that his mission was to return Christianity to its apostolic purity. Calvin had been trained in both the priesthood and the law at the University of Paris, where he'd first heard about the Protestant faith.
By 1536 he'd persuaded them to accept the Protestant faith as their official religion.įarel convinced another young Protestant from Paris, John Calvin, to settle in Geneva.
GENEVA BIBLE CRACKED
The following year a young French Protestant named Guillaume Farel fled to Geneva from Paris, where the authorities had just cracked down on followers of the "new religion." The citizens of Geneva loved the radical ideas of this fiery preacher. He died defending Zurich against an invasion by Catholic troops in 1531. His movement took root in city after city, in spite of opposition from the Church. Zwingli became the acknowledged leader of the Swiss Reformation. From then on, he was ready to fight for the reformers' cause, hailing Luther as a "new Elias." For the first time, he actually felt the presence of God. He recovered from the plague that had swept over Zurich. That same year, Zwingli had a healing experience that changed his thinking forever.
GENEVA BIBLE SERIES
Armed with this knowledge and fired with resentment against the abuses of the Church, he delivered, in 1519, a series of sermons that launched the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland. This inspired him to learn Greek and Hebrew, as well as to devote himself to Scriptural study. During his first pastorship, though, he came under the influence of the Dutch reformer and humanist Erasmus. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1506. Zwingli was born in the mountains of eastern Switzerland. The push for reform started first in the German-speaking city of Zurich, under the leadership of Ulrich Zwingli. in the small, independent city-states of Switzerland. Paralleling Martin Luther's Reformation work in Germany was the Protestant movement. ZWINGLI- FIRST LEADER OF THE SWISS REFORMATION It was here that a colony of English Protestant refugees found a sanctuary where they could translate and publish a new version of the Scriptures for the people of their homeland-a version that came to be known as the Geneva Bible. In the mid-1500s religious exiles from continental Europe and England fled by the thousands to Geneva to escape persecution and map out the future of the Protestant Reformation. Many of these reformers gave their lives to make the Bible and its reforming influence available to all men and women.įor centuries the city of Geneva was a haven for political and religious refugees. It focuses on the great reformers who wrote and translated the Bible. This illustrated monthly series in the Journal encompasses the dramatic history of how the world's scriptures developed over thousands of years.
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