The Importance of Free Will in the Reformation of Zurich

Zurich effectively seceded from christendom as it had been for many centuries. The emergence of anabaptism shows that svingli himself could not accept what he had unleashed. Swingle's way of thinking unwittingly makes space for an autonomous, secular approach to a world drained of miracles and comprehensible through reason. We have already seen another early reformer, melancthon exploring possibilities of a non ariscitilian natural philosophy.