SOURCE: "The Answer to Valentin Compar," in Zwingli and the Arts, Yale University Press, 1966, pp. 161–78.

In this excerpt, Garside analyzes Zwingli's rationale for his rejection of ecclesiastical and liturgical images and music.

Rillet assesses Zwingli's overall importance to the Reformation:

If Zwingli is the least known of the reformers, this is doubtless because of his Swiss origins. Not only is the scene on which his activity took place more restricted than the Germany of Luther, or the France of Calvin, but also the language which he used—the crude dialect of his Alpine valley—often remains incomprehensible to the foreign reader. He was born, he preached, he struggled and he died on a territory which hardly exceeded in size the limits of a province. His studies at Berne, Vienna and Basle, the military campaigns in Italy, and the colloquy of Marburg, alone free him at times from his...