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The consequence of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, debates, writings, and preaching was a great revival of Christian faith that became the Lutheran Reformation (Leith 33).
The Reformation in Switzerland was not directly dependent on the Lutheran Reformation, though Luther's work influenced and shaped its development in many ways. In Switzerland, the Reformation grew out of the pervasive Christian humanism in the region. Huldrich, or Ulrich, Zwingli is known as the first Swiss reformer, and it was his powerful personality and his skill as a churchman and preacher that precipitated the Swiss Reformation. Both Zwingli and John Calvin in Geneva followed the same pattern in their ministries--they determined to preach through the scriptures page by page. Zwingli would determine from this tha
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