he stepped into the pulpit under the high steeples of the Great Minster and announced that, rather than preach through set readings and fill his sermons with the thoughts of medieval theologians, he would preach his way through Matthew’s Gospel verse by verse. And when he had finished that, he’d keep going through the rest of the New Testament. God’s word would go out to all the people, undiluted, unadulterated, constantly: this was what Zwingli would be all about, and this was how Zurich would be reformed.
