On a Serious Note

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I rather like Zwingli. It is like my UCLA phase where I appreciated the professor I disagreed with and mutually disliked the professor whose views were closer to mine. I tend really to side with Luther in their discussions, but honestly, which would you rather invite over for tea?

We are told that in their discussions of the truth of the Eucharist - real and mystical body and blood of Christ or symbolic commemoration - Luther and Zwingli could NOT find a formula.

Zwingli was willing to agree to disagree, Luther [predictably] was my way or the highway. I'm sure Luther was a great guy if he thought you agreed with him, ad they both had their music, but either you agreed with Luther or you were going to regret it.

Somewhere I read that one last meeting Zwingli at the end said Hey, we can stil be friends and Luther glared and stomped out.

If we are all looking for the truth - and if none of us knows the whole truth - and THAT is a safe bet - let's have Zwingli over and shoot the breeze.

I never heard of Zwingly and I graduated from a Lutheran elementary school. I looked him up and he seems like a silly person. How can anyone have a serious discussion about these topics? I don't understand how Luther took it so seriously either. I mean, how can you argue about the things he argued about. They were all just silly, but it was so serious and a lot of people died and/or made lots of money from it.

"In October, 1529, Philip invited both Luther and Zwingli to his castle in Marburg to hash out their differences. The two men, however, had very little in common, and their discussions ended in failure. Luther, for his part, thought Zwingli to be mad, a religious fanatic who had lost touch with common sense and spirituality. Zwingli, for his part, thought Luther to be hopelessly enmeshed in unsupportable Catholic doctrine. Their meeting in Marburg itself represents the last point in the Reformation at which the movement could have preserved some unity. After Marburg, unification of the various Protestant movements became impossible, and the new church, which Luther believed would become another, more pure universal church, fragmented into a thousand separate, quarrelling pieces within a few decades." http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a ... _id=00CfQ8

I will not at this point START a discussion on these topics -

but let me assure you, stick around long enough - doesn't even have to be at the university, though that helps - and you find people will have serious and even passionate discussions about ANYTHING.