Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531)
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- English
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- ~130,000 words · 609 passages
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- APAUlrich Zwingli. (n.d.). Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ulrich-zwingli/selected-works-of-huldreich-zwingli-1484-1531
- MLAUlrich Zwingli. "Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ulrich-zwingli/selected-works-of-huldreich-zwingli-1484-1531.
- ChicagoUlrich Zwingli. Selected Works of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ulrich-zwingli/selected-works-of-huldreich-zwingli-1484-1531.
What it is about
A selection from the writings of Zwingli, the reformer of Zurich, who reached conclusions like Luther's on his own and broke with him on one point.
Context and history
Zwingli began preaching in Zurich in 1519, two years after Luther's theses, and maintained that he had come to his position by reading Erasmus and the Greek New Testament, not by reading Luther. His Sixty-Seven Articles of 1523 are the programme of the Swiss Reformation. The breaking point was the eucharist: for Luther the body of Christ is really present there; for Zwingli the words 'this is my body' are a figure and the sacrament is a memorial. The two met at Marburg in 1529 and could not agree, and that division persists. Zwingli died at forty-seven, weapon in hand, in a battle between Catholic and Reformed cantons.
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Tuis volume presents a selection from the contents of the eight volumes in which the works of Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switzerland, are preserved in the only edition now accessible, namely, that published in Zurich between 1828 and 1842, with a supplement in 1861. Egli and Finsler’s edition in the Corpus Reformatorum is announced but will not be finished for at least ten years. The selection has been made purposely from those papers which had never been translated -—at least not in their entirety—into modern German or English. These papers have been arranged in chronological order, and when read consecutively present a documentary history of several phases of the Zurich Reformation. They have been utilized in my biography of Zwingli, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York city, in the series of ‘“ Heroes of the Reformation,” and are here printed in full by the courtesy of the publishers of the series. As appears, the translations from the Latin were made by Mr. Henry Preble, of this city, and by Prof. George W. Gilmore, and those from the Zurich German by Mr. Lawrence A. McLouth, Professor of German in the New York University. They will be found accurate and spirited, and I am very proud to be able to put into the hands of the English reader for the first time matter of so interesting and important a character. My highest ambition is that Huldreich Zwingli may _ win in this way a large number of friends. My own part in this new