Editing Heinrich Bullinger (section)

==== Interactions with Anabaptists (1531–60) ====
Bullinger sortied against the [[Anabaptism|Anabaptists]] in his 1531 work, ''Four Books to Warn the Faithful of the Shameless Disturbance, Offensive Confusion, and False Teachings of the Anabaptists''. Although Bullinger regarded Anabaptists as unstable citizens who encouraged a society of chaos and superstition, in practice he allowed them to follow their consciences and refused to forbid their freedom of worship in Zurich.<ref>George Ella, "Henry Bullinger (1504-1575): Shepherd of the Churches," in Thomas Harding, ed., ''The Decades of Henry Bullinger'' (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Reformation Heritage Books, 2004), 40.</ref> Bullinger upheld this principle of quasi-toleration for the rest of his life.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp||page=115|pages=}} During Bullinger's leadership of Zürich from 1531 to 1575, not a single Anabaptist was executed for his faith. By comparison, four Anabaptists were executed under Zwingli and forty in Bern.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp||page=115|pages=}} Nevertheless, when the Anabaptist [[Münster rebellion|Munster]] fell in 1534, he wrote, on behalf of the whole Zürich synod, a defense of the death penalty for Anabaptists who had offended the public peace.<ref name=":9" />{{Rp||page=112}} Bullinger eventually wrote a long history of the Anabaptists called ''On the Origins of Anabaptism'' (1560), which detailed their origin and spread in Europe. The book was widely disseminated and is still reflected in recent histories of Anabaptists.<ref name=":9" />{{Rp||page=|pages=112–113}}