- Zeller, Eduard
- (1814-1908)
- German theologian and philosopher
- leader of Tübingen School
- used critical methods of F. C. Baur and David Strauss to question the historicity of Acts
- rejected orthodox view of God and deity of Christ
- pantheist
- Zeno of Elea
- (c 490-430 BC)
Zeno of Elea
- Follower of Parmenides.
- He tried to prove the absurdity of believing that reality is made up of many changing things.
- If a thing moves, it must move either where it is or where it is not.
- But it cannot move where it is, because there it is at rest.
- Nor can it move where it is not, because it does not even exist there.
- So, he concluded, motion is absurd.
- ZENO'S PARADOXES
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- The four rational proofs of the impossibility of plurality or of motion advanced by Zeno of Elea and subsequently resolved by mathematical theory.
- See Paradox
- Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf Von
- (1700-1760)
Zinzendorf
- German count
- founded Moravian church
- Lutheran theology, but emphasized personal experiential knowledge of God
- Pietistic
- allowed Moravians to stay on his estate
- wrote hymn "Jesus, Still Lead On"
- Zwingli, Ulrich
- (1484-1531)
ulrich Zwingli
- Swiss leader of Reformation
- influenced by Erasmus
- opposed sale of mercenaries by Swiss
- Bible, not church, is source of doctrine
- differed with Luther over Lord's Supper
- some of his followers broke away to form the Anabaptists whom he persecuted
- wrote
- Concerning Freedom and Choice of Food
- Sixty-seven Conclusions
- politically minded
- he was killed in battle of Kappel against Catholics