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    How Effectively did Zwingli Direct Reformation Policies in Zurich ? Stephen Doth: SaaS? There are at least two approaches one could take to answer the question at hand, the fist is a simple recounting of reformatory events in which Zwingli's directing ‘influence may be assessed, while the second combines the first approach with one that sets the events of the Reformation in Zurich in a wider context than just Zwingli’s role 1 shall begin by taking the second approach and identifying, firstly, wo “Powers” of Reform in Zurich, rethers and the Council. Then I shall describe a selection of the events which comprise, atleast, a substantial pat ofthe Reformation in Zurich. These events ae located in thee broad areas: reform ofthe Tithes; reform of the Sacraments; and the Disputations, which were the main theate in which reform in Zarich was publicly and auhortvely discussed, ‘The primary constraint in any context on one person's power to alter existing Principles and beliefs ar other people. Therefore, to say Zwingli directed Reformation Policies, whether effectively or inffectively, should not be interpreted as meaning he ‘was trying in spite or because of others, to impose his own fixed and immutable beliefs"which reforms were needed upon the rest of the town, There is nothing to suggest that be was not fully aware of the Hinited means at his disposal as one individual to direct the sprtual and material fate of the sixty thousand people who lived in the Canton under the authority of Zurich's Great Council of Two Hundred, T have ietied two broad aes of power in Zach athe begin of ings teare of te pos of Sipenday Priest wit Cr of Sous in Decor 1518 Thetwo areas of power, whose anbory was dived fom diflereat ourecs were he power of Peaches and te pital power of te Great Couctof Twe Handed Nataly, it would be Ious to suggest tat the reform and inked te pubic conscience was no inflenced ty te two aforementioned insiuioased ashes pt woul te eq sad oa everthing descended tom th pulpit and the ‘othe people who ace coring tit However inthe ac allowed to hs per sal ot examine too deplete made and deployments of insnce. ‘When Zwingliarved to take up his post a the people's preacher he did so as a well known scholar and suspected philnderer. In addition, he was known to be a supporter ofthe Pope, asa guarantor of he liberty the Swiss confederacy, and opposed 'o the strengthening of French influence inthe area It could be the suspicion that be as a philanderer which explains why four out of the twenty-one man appointing ‘committee opposed his appointment, though itis more likely thatthe concentration on hs negative characteristics was du to rivalry for the lcrative and influential poston he tained with a comfortable majority in his favour. Itis,however, an important fact that his ski as a preacher and scholar was recognised enough to counter the moral and nat hint eb salvationary fears that an unclean hand onthe Eucharist may result nthe, purgatory or worse for the communicants. In a leter he wrote on the fifth of December 1518, to ‘explain the rumour circulating concerning his alleged despoilment ofa virgin, he admits the possibility that bei the father ofthe baby the girl was pregnant with, however, he ‘oes onto say, firstly, that she was rather the opposite of a virgin when she seduced him and, secondly, that “a just man stumbles seven times a day and St. Peter forgives him seventy times seven”! In any case he was appointed and the acceptance of his ‘explanation for his former lapses suggests that, a east inthe sphere of sexual mores, the Council was liber enough and, dare I say it, Catholic enough, to forgive transgressions ‘The postion of preacher in any town of widespread illiteracy, ignorance and

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