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Updated: June 7, 2025
The chief importance for the rest of Europe of Zwingli's revolt was the influence of his conception of the Lord's Supper. Those in Germany and England who accepted Zwingli's idea added one more to the Protestant parties, and consequently increased the difficulty of reaching a general agreement among those who had revolted from the Church.
To the progress of science alone science, which teaches how to distinguish between the letter and the spirit science, which the coward only fears, which he, who knows her not, only can calumniate. But how very far in the rear was such science in Zwingli's age!
It affords us a deep glance into his inner life, and reveals to us the plans with which he was occupied; and whilst the cold-blooded reader, who sees in history only the results of human struggles, and declares those most successful, where the most comprehensive means have accompanied the grandest designs, may read these with admiration of Zwingli's political sagacity, he, on the other hand, who measures all things by the rule of the Gospel, will be obliged to condemn them.
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