Silesian reformer Caspar Schwenkfeld voluntarily exiles himself from Liegnitz in 1529 in order to relieve pressure on and embarrassment of his duke, living from 1529–1534 in Strasbourg, where his highly personal religious teachings had begun to alienate Martin Bucer, and then in Swabia.

Martin Luther had expelled Caspar Schwenckfeld from Silesia in 1540.

Schwenckfeld publishes the Great Confession on the Glory of Christ in 1541.

Many consider the writing to be heretical.

He teaches that Christ had two natures, divine and human, but that he became progressively more divine.

He also publishes a number of works about interpreting the Scriptures during the 1550s, often responding to the rebuttals of the Lutheran Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus.