What are we, Protestants, really celebrating today?

I don't want to sound like a historical revisionist, but Jim West has been writing very interesting pieces about when did the Protestant Reformation really started. Lutherans love to think that everything started with Martin Luther. It is well known that the usual phrase "Justification by faith is the article by which the Church stands or falls" is not from Luther, rather, from Johann Heinrich Alsted, dating from 1618. So, after some 400 hundred years, it would be a good thing to start giving praise where it is due.  Also, the Lutheran project did not go as well as it was intended, but it did quash other movement, as the Anabaptist movement, and condemned Zwingli for rejecting the Luther's understanding (misunderstanding more like it) of the Lord's Supper.

Well, this is how Jim started his posts about the date where the Reformation really started:

And yes, it's just Lutheran Reformation Day.  Luther was 2 years late as the initiator of Reformation- Zwingli having begun work in that direction in 1515.  So, congrats, Lutherans- just as was true at Barmen- while the Lutherans slept, the Reformed worked.

And the next one:

The Lutherans are celebrating what they call ‘Reformation Day’.  They like to delude themselves with the unfounded belief that were it not for Luther, there would have been no Reformation. 

Alas, poor things, they seem totally unaware that Reform had already commenced further south, in Switzerland, where Zwingli and his colleagues had been lurching towards true Reform since 1515. 

To be sure, Luther matters.  But he doesn’t matter as much as his followers would like the world to believe. ...... 

Luther didn’t teach Zwingli either the Gospel or the proper understanding of the Supper of the Lord.  Zwingli knew and taught both before anyone had ever heard of Luther. 

So, dear Lutherans, enjoy your awakening day.  It’s ok with the rest of us if you were a bit late to the party.

Very revealing, indeed.