Abstract
Abstract Mid-1525 saw a paradigm shift in Zwingli’s theological thinking on the covenant. In a defense of his understanding of the Eucharist against the accusations of his Roman Catholic opponents in Zurich, Zwingli used for the first time an argument rooted in the fundamental continuity of the covenant. The pivotal bible text is God’s covenant with Abraham in Genesis 17, from which Zwingli looked back to the protoevangelion as the first mention of the covenant and forward to Christ as its fulfillment. The arc of the whole biblical narrative now proposed a single covenant (foedus) of grace. The notion of a prelapsarian covenant can be found in his later writings. Zwingli’s covenantal turn reflected his intensive exegesis of the Book of Genesis at the new Bible seminary in Zurich, while covenant theology coupled with the doctrine of election was of particular importance in the context of the Anabaptist controversy.
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