Luther's Influence On Religion
Not long after Luther started the revival, in 1552 Ulrich Zwingli was inspired to take the reformation to Switzerland. Zwingli took a step further than Luther completely changing the church in Zurich. He had no interest in simply reforming the church but stripped away every aspect of church practices that he believed were unbiblical. Common catholic practices such as lent, transubstantiation, saint worship, pilgrimages, purgatory, worship of statues, and mass Zwingli saw as unnecessary because they were simply unbiblical. Zwingli fought for biblical truth in the church. These major changes were hard for some people to adjust to. Many had grown up with these religious practices and now these things were being abandoned. It was all for the better,