Digital Logos Edition
J. J. Hottinger examines Zwingli not only as a Protestant reformer, but also as a statesman, and as fully human figure, noting that “if we regard him as merely a reformer of the church, he may perhaps appear to us surrounded by a brighter glory; but history demands a full representation, and such a representation exhibits him as a man ‘possessed of like passions with ourselves.’ ” Drawing upon numerous Latin and German works relating to the period, as well as “an immense mass of important and necessary state-papers, long buried in the archives of the Canton,” Hottinger offers an informative history of Zwingli’s life and work in the context of the broader history of the Swiss Reformation.
