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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...

If Christ is working in and through us, will we not become indifferent to sin? Not at all. As Zwingli cleverly points out, “the Christian is like a man with a broken leg. He does not continue to break it just because he has found a doctor who can heal it. Instead, he remembers the pain of the break. So those, who when they hear that Christ has made atonement for the sins of all exclaims, ‘we will sin, for all things are freely pardoned through Christ’ have never felt the pain of sin” (Z III 700.19–701.28).
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