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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of Zwingli's life and his role in the reformation, in Switzerland and beyond
Trade Review'An exceedingly well planned volume, which, after an introductory essay on the Swiss people, takes the reader through every important aspect of Zwingli's career, including Marburg with all of its political and theological difficulties, and even manages to seize upon the appearance of Zwingli's Commentarius de vera et false religione (1525) to offer a descriptive review of Zwingli's theology in the course of some thirty pages. . . . A sound, eminently readable, even absorbing biography, that teaches us more about Zwingli, and does him greater justice, than any comparable volume I am aware of.' - Bart Thompson, in Church History
Table of ContentsAuthor's Foreword 9 Introduction: The Swiss Background 11 Part One: The Formative Years 1. Childhood and Education 21 2. Vicar of Glarus and Chaplain in Italy 30 3. Chaplain A Einsiedeln: The Call To Zürich 40 4. Beginnings at Zürich: the Great Plague 48 Part Two: The Reformer 5. Zwingli, the Biblical Preacher 57 6. Ways and Means: the Temporizer 63 7. Lent, 1522: the Dramatic Affair of the Sausages 67 8. Final Attempts at Conciliation: the Rupture 71 Part Three: The Protestant Revolution 9. Abandonment of Ancient Practices 83 10. End of Chapter and Cloisters 87 11. From Mass to Lord's Supper 92
