Editing Huldrych Zwingli (section)

====First Disputation====
On 3 January 1523, the Zurich city council invited the clergy of the city and outlying region to a meeting to allow the factions to present their opinions. The bishop was invited to attend or to send a representative. The council would render a decision on who would be allowed to continue to proclaim their views. This meeting, the first Zurich disputation, took place on 29 January 1523.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gäbler|1986|pp=63–65}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Potter|1976|pp=97–100}}</ref>

The meeting attracted a large crowd of approximately six hundred participants. The bishop sent a delegation led by his [[vicar general]], [[Johann Faber|Johannes Fabri]]. Zwingli summarised his position in the ''Schlussreden'' (Concluding Statements or the Sixty-seven Articles).<ref>{{Harvnb|Potter|1976|p=99}}</ref><ref>The Sixty-seven Articles are contained in [https://archive.org/details/selectedworksofh00zwin ''Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli'', Philadelphia, 1901], pp. 111–117. At Internet Archive. Accessed 13 March 2015.</ref> Fabri, who had not envisaged an academic disputation in the manner Zwingli had prepared for,<ref>{{Harvnb|Cameron|1991|pp=108}}</ref> was forbidden to discuss high theology before laymen, and simply insisted on the necessity of the ecclesiastical authority. The decision of the council was that Zwingli would be allowed to continue his preaching and that all other preachers should teach only in accordance with Scripture.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gäbler|1986|pp=67–71}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Potter|1976|pp=100–104}}</ref>