The Latin Works and Huldreich Zwingli, vol. 3
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 three includes one of Zwingli's most powerful works: “Commentary on the True and False Religion.”
- Contains the English translations of two of Zwingli's most important works
- Completely searchable and linked to your preferred Bible translation and other books in your library
- Commentary on True and False Religion
- Reply to Emser
Top Highlights
“So I am brought to see that a sacrament is nothing else than an initiatory ceremony or a pledging.” (Page 181)
“In Matt. 15:9 Christ quotes the testimony of Isaiah 29:13, as He is in the habit of drawing His fulminations against the Jews from the Old Testament, though rarely naming the passage: ‘In vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.’ If, then, that worship, that piety or religion, is vain which proceeds from human invention or law, solid and true surely is that religion, on the other hand, which is guided by the word of God alone, and looks to and hears this only.” (Page 95)
“We shall find it to be no other than that we believe on Christ. This food, then, of which Christ speaks here is faith. Therefore here is placed the first mark by which we discover that they are utterly wrong who think that Christ in this whole chapter is saying something about sacramental food.” (Page 201)
“It is faith, therefore, that allays all hunger and thirst. But what hunger, and what thirst? Those of the soul, of course. Faith in Christ is, therefore, the only thing that can give such food and drink to the heart that it shall want nothing further.” (Page 202)
“The whole life of a Christian, therefore, is repentance. For when do we not sin?” (Page 123)
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: 1929
- Pages: 397
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.