Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sodality of scholars, many of whom had been associated with Erasmus. In creating a new Christian order, Zwingli and his colleagues sought biblical, historical, literary, and political models to shape and defend their radical reforms. After Zwingli's sudden death, the next generation was committed to the institutional and intellectual establishment of the Reformation through ongoing dialogue with the past. The essays of this volume examine the immediacy of antiquity, early Christianity, and the Middle Ages for the Zurich reformers. Their reading and appropriation of history was no mere rhetorical exercise or polemical defence. The Bible, theology, church institutions, pedagogy, and humanist scholarship were the lifeblood of the Reformation. But their appropriation depended on the interplay of past ideals with the pressing demands of a sixteenth-century reform movement troubled by internal dissention and constantly under attack. This book focuses on Zwingli's successors and on their interpretations of the recent and distant past: the choices they made, and why. How those pasts spoke to the present and how they were heard tell us a great deal not only about the distinctive nature of Zurich and Zwinglianism, but also about locality, history, and religious change in the European Reformation.

Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562), einer der Vater des reformierten Protestantismus, hielt in den Jahren 1554 bis 1556 in Strassburg Vorlesungen uber die Nikomachische Ethik des Aristoteles, welche nach seinem Tod 1563 in Zurich in der Form eines fortlaufenden Kommentars herausgegeben wurden. In der vorliegenden Studie wird einerseits Vermiglis Hermeneutik im Kontext der weiteren Kommentarliteratur untersucht, andererseits die Interaktion philosophischer und theologischer Anliegen in seiner Auslegung beleuchtet. Dies ermoglicht, die Grundlinien der reformierten Philosophierezeption sowie die Verhaltnisbestimmung von aristotelischer Ethik und Heilslehre in der fruhneuzeitlichen reformierten Theologie am Beispiel Vermiglis zu rekonstruieren. Luca Baschera, Dr. phil., Jahrgang 1980, studierte Philosophie an der Universitat Turin und promovierte an der Universitat Zurich. Er ist Mitarbeiter am Institut fur Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte der Universitat Zurich.