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‘Christ Our Captain’: An Introduction to Huldrych Zwingli is unavailable, but you can change that!

In ‘Christ Our Captain’, Jim West presents a succinct biography of the First Reformer of Switzerland before providing original translations of excerpts from some of Zwingli’s most important writings—writings appearing here for the first time in English. Covering topics such as prayer, salvation, heaven, and more, West’s translations emanate the clarity and power of Zwingli’s voice, and his...

Him, it naturally happens that they speak the truth to their neighbor … Prayer, therefore, is the conversation flowing from faith in God as your father- a certain and secure helper indeed. Prayer is the elevation of the heart, not the breath or voice alone. When we pray, then, our hearts draw so very near to God, they speak to him, seeking in him and from him their only help and security.… Our prayer is nothing other than the begging of help of some kind or another in some thing or another.… You
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