Differences Between Zwingli And Calvin

Reformers, besides composing communities outside state sanction, often employed more extreme doctrinal change, such as the repudiation of tenets of the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon. The presence of a printing press in a city by 1500 made Protestant adoption by 1600 far more likely.
In Switzerland, the schooling of the reformers and especially those of Zwingli and Calvin had a huge effect, despite the constant fights between the different divisions of the Reformation.
Contrary to happenings in Germany, a motion began in the Swiss Confederation with the direction of Huldrych Zwingli. Although the two movements agreed on many issues of belief, as the newly introduced printing press increased ideas speedily from place to place, some undetermined differences kept them
Historians have not been able to prove that Zwingli had any contact with Luther's publications before 1520, and Zwingli himself maintained that he had stopped himself from reading them. The German Prince Philip of Hesse saw possbility in creating an alliance between Zwingli and Luther, seeing brawn in a united Protestant front. A gathering was held in his castle which is now known as the Colloquy of Marburg, which has become infamous for its complete failure. The two men could not come to any agreement due to their disputation over one key doctrine. Although Luther preached consubstantiation in the Eucharist over transubstantiation, he believed in the spiritual presence of Christ at the Mass. Zwingli, inspired by Dutch theologian Cornelius Hoen, believed that the mass was only representative and memorial – Christ was not present.[28] Luther became so angry that he famously carved into the meeting table in chalk Hoc Est Corpus Meum – a Biblical quotation from the Last Supper meaning 'This is my body'. Zwingli countered this saying that est in that context was the equivalent of the word significant (signifies).[29] Some followers of Zwingli believed that the Reformation was too