Why did the Reformation pass quickly and without bloodshed in Sweden, while there was a bloody civil war in Switzerland?
October 31, 2020 | Education
| Sweden is the outskirts of Europe; there the Reformation solved one narrow problem – the isolation of the Swedish people from the spiritual authority of Rome. On the contrary, Switzerland lies in the center of Europe, and there reflected (in a weakened form) all the contradictions that had accumulated in the national churches of France and Germany, as well as between different Swiss cantons.
