The Latin Works and Huldreich Zwingli, vol. 2
Overview
“This is the gospel, that sins are remitted in the name of Christ; and no heart ever received tidings more glad.” Huldrych Zwingli's contribution to the Reformation may have been just as important as Luther and Calvin's, yet many still don't know much about him, let alone read his powerful works. Zwingli preached against ecclesial corruption, fasting, the requirement of celibacy on the clergy, the veneration of saints, excommunication, and more—setting the stage for the Swiss Reformation.
The three volumes in The Latin Works and The Correspondence of Huldreich Zwingli contain the English translations of some of Zwingli's most important letters, sermons, poems, tracts, and more. Each entry contains an introduction to the work and the editors have provided helpful notes. Volume two includes “A Short and Clear Exposition of the Christian Faith,” “Declaration of Huldreich Zwingli Regarding Original Sin,” and much more.
- Contains the English translations of some of Zwingli's most important letters, sermons, poems, tracts, and more
- Completely searchable and linked to your preferred Bible translation and other books in your library
- Declaration of Zwingli Regarding Original Sin
- An Account of the Faith of Zwingli
- Refutation of the Articles of Zwingli
- Letter of Zwingli to the Illustrious Princes of Germany
- Reproduction from Memory of a Sermon on the Providence of God
- A Short and Clear Exposition of the Christian Faith Preached by Zwingli
Top Highlights
“The other thing which I have undertaken to set forth here is this,—that that natural, material body of Christ’s, in which He suffered here and now sitteth in heaven at the right hand of the Father, is not eaten literally and in its essence, but only spiritually, in the Lord’s Supper, and that the teaching of the Papists, that Christ’s body is eaten by us having the size and the exact qualities and nature it had when He was born, suffered, and died, is not only frivolous and stupid but impious and blasphemous.” (Page 248)
“I believe that in the holy Eucharist, i. e., the supper of thanksgiving, the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith. This means that they who thank the Lord for the benefits bestowed on us in His Son acknowledge that He assumed true flesh, in it truly suffered, truly washed away our sins by His blood; and thus everything done by Christ becomes as it were present to them by the contemplation of faith. But that the body of Christ in essence and really, i. e., the natural body itself, is either present in the supper or masticated with our mouth and teeth, as the Papists or some* who look back to the fleshpots of Egypt assert, we not only deny, but constantly maintain to be an error, contrary to the Word of God.” (Page 49)
“From these sources drew Augustine, that pillar of theologians, when he said that Christ’s body must be in some particular place in heaven in virtue of its character as real body.† And again, ‘Christ’s body which rose from the dead must be in one place.’‡ Christ’s body, therefore, is not in several places any more than our bodies are.” (Page 249)
A translation of Zwingli's works, to be placed alongside of the works of Luther and Calvin, is a boon to English readers who would acquaint themselves with the secret of this great reformer's power.
—Homiletic Review
The editor's contribution shows that meticulous care in details which we have learned to expect from Dr. Jackson. It is a matter of congratulation that we are now to have in English a worthy presentation of the writings of a man whose appeal to the modern spirit is as direct as Luther's and is often much more in the temper of our approach to the problems not only of practical religion but of national honor.
—The Nation
- Title: The Latin Works and The Correspondence of Huldreich Zwingli, vol. 1
- Editor: Samuel Macauley Jackson
- Publisher: The Heidelberg Press
- Publication Date: 1922
- Pages: 295
Samuel Macauley Jackson (1851–1912) was educated at Princeton Theological Seminary and Union Seminary. He then studied for two years at the University of Leipzig, and then earned his DD from New York University. He served as an editor and author for numerous prestigious projects, including The American Church History Series, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Thought, The Encyclopedia of Living Divines, and The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge.