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Huldreich Zwingli: The Reformer of German Switzerland (1484–1531) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Filled with rich insight in the life and theology of Zwingli and containing numerous illustrations and photographs, Zwingli expert and historian Samuel Jackson provides an in-depth biography of one of the Reformation’s unsung heroes. Also included in this edition is John Martin Vincent’s essay “An Historical Survey of Switzerland before the Reformation” and an additional chapter on Zwingli’s...

THE year 1522 is that in which the Reformation began in Zurich. The course of Zwingli’s development to preach such an intellectual creed as that of Protestantism can be traced. He came of a very intelligent family on both sides, and was so uncommonly bright as a child that the propriety of educating him was manifest. In the providence of God that education was from the start at the direction of his father’s brother, who had progressive ideas; and as the same
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