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Zwingli denominations

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Luther founded Lutheranism. Calvin founded Calvinism, which in turn, John Knox founded Presbyterianism in Scotland.

King Henry VIII became head of the Church of England and Anglicanism, which was heavily influenced by Archbishop Cranmer.

What Church did the Protestant leader Zwingli find? Do any Churches have themselves named after him or follow his theology?

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Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin were contemporaries, both pioneering the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, with Zwingli active earlier in Zurich (d. 1531) and Calvin rising to prominence in Geneva (active from 1536),
 
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I don't think any of those theologians 'founded' their belief systems. I think there were existing people that believed those belief systems & rallied around them. I don't think they needed those theologians to spell it out for them. These theologians weren't speaking into a void.

Maybe that's why there's not a 'Zwingli' church? The people that rallied around him didn't like the idea of going to a 'Zwingli' church. It's a good question & maybe that's why
 
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I don't think any of those theologians 'founded' their belief systems. I think there were existing people that believed those belief systems & rallied around them. I don't think they needed those theologians to spell it out for them. These theologians weren't speaking into a void.

Maybe that's why there's not a 'Zwingli' church? The people that rallied around him didn't like the idea of going to a 'Zwingli' church. It's a good question & maybe that's why
Good point.
 
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I forgot about John & Charles Wesley, brothers, Anglican priest and hymn writer respectively, and founders of Methodism. Or more accurately, their followers founded Methodism.
 
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Luther founded Lutheranism. Calvin founded Calvinism, which in turn, John Knox founded Presbyterianism in Scotland.

King Henry VIII became head of the Church of England and Anglicanism, which was heavily influenced by Archbishop Cranmer.

What Church did the Protestant leader Zwingli find? Do any Churches have themselves named after him or follow his theology?

Peace

Zwingli was the leader, one might say founder, of the Reformed Church in Zurich, and was later killed leading forces in a military battle. There are no denominations I am aware of that call themselves Zwinglian, but there are churches which accept his interpretation of the Eucharist.

The Anglican Benedictine Monk (Order of the Holy Cross) and esteemed early 20th century liturgiologist Dom Gregory Dix, memory eternal, argued in The Shape of the Liturgy that Cranmer’s view of the Eucharist as expressed in the 1552 BCP, due to the Black Rubric and related content, however, this claim is extremely controversial; by the 17th century, High Church Anglicans such as the maryred king Charles I clearly believed in the Real Presence, which also became a defining belief of the early Scottish Episcopalians and non-Jurors, hence the addition of the Epiclesis from the Divine Liturgy of St. James to their Holy Communion Service (from which it made its way into the Episcopal Church, USA, which historically has been largely Anglo Catholic, but with some notable regional exceptions, for example, Virginia in particular has been known as the home of low church Episcopalianism, with some parishes I’m told celebrating Morning Prayer rather than Holy Communion as their main Sunday service, and the Episcopal Church never sought to enforce a uniform belief or churchmanship concerning the Eucharist, however the relatively high church tone of most American BCP editions was less of a controversy than the attempted 1928 Deposited Book in the UK, rejected by Parliament; for that matter the 1962 Canadian BCP’s Holy Communion service is the result of laborious compromise following acrimonious debates between Low Church and High Church segments.

Ironically some of the most Low Church Anglicans I’ve encountered on the Internet are also the quickest to reject the contention of Dom Gregory Dix that the BCP implies a Zwinglian Eucharistic theology, so his idea might be more controversial among low and middle church Anglicans than among Anglo Catholics, indeed I would expect many Missal Catholics among the Anglican population would accept what Dom Gregory said without hesitation.
 
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Zwingli was the leader, one might say founder, of the Reformed Church in Zurich, and was later killed leading forces in a military battle. There are no denominations I am aware of that call themselves Zwinglian, but there are churches which accept his interpretation of the Eucharist.

The Anglican Benedictine Monk (Order of the Holy Cross) and esteemed early 20th century liturgiologist Dom Gregory Dix, memory eternal, argued in The Shape of the Liturgy that Cranmer’s view of the Eucharist as expressed in the 1552 BCP, due to the Black Rubric and related content, however, this claim is extremely controversial; by the 17th century, High Church Anglicans such as the maryred king Charles I clearly believed in the Real Presence, which also became a defining belief of the early Scottish Episcopalians and non-Jurors, hence the addition of the Epiclesis from the Divine Liturgy of St. James to their Holy Communion Service (from which it made its way into the Episcopal Church, USA, which historically has been largely Anglo Catholic, but with some notable regional exceptions, for example, Virginia in particular has been known as the home of low church Episcopalianism, with some parishes I’m told celebrating Morning Prayer rather than Holy Communion as their main Sunday service, and the Episcopal Church never sought to enforce a uniform belief or churchmanship concerning the Eucharist, however the relatively high church tone of most American BCP editions was less of a controversy than the attempted 1928 Deposited Book in the UK, rejected by Parliament; for that matter the 1962 Canadian BCP’s Holy Communion service is the result of laborious compromise following acrimonious debates between Low Church and High Church segments.

Ironically some of the most Low Church Anglicans I’ve encountered on the Internet are also the quickest to reject the contention of Dom Gregory Dix that the BCP implies a Zwinglian Eucharistic theology, so his idea might be more controversial among low and middle church Anglicans than among Anglo Catholics, indeed I would expect many Missal Catholics among the Anglican population would accept what Dom Gregory said without hesitation.
Ah! Thanks for the informative response! I appreciate it! :)
 
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There was a Zwinglian church (at least in New Glarus, Wisconsin) until it merged with the United Church of Christ in the 1970’s, as I remember.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing! :)
 
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There was a Zwinglian church (at least in New Glarus, Wisconsin) until it merged with the United Church of Christ in the 1970’s, as I remember.

What was it called?
 
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