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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  I think I read in William _______'s history of the church (his name escapes me). Something to the effect that Zwingle had a mistress or affair with some chick. Now, if it were in his pre-Reformed days, then it is all cool. But if he sort of kept her on afterwards, then there could be problems. Maybe he didn't want to pull an Augustine on her.
But is this problematic for Protestant history apologetics? | You probably read it in Williston Walker's, A History of the Christian Church, and it does seem that was the case. He did marry her... Quote: |
Meanwhile, on April 2, 1524, Zwingli had publicly married Anna Reinhard, a widow, whom he and his friends, not without considerable gossip, had treated as in some sense his wife since 1522. p. 363.
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