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Author:   Jean Rilliet
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
ISBN:  

9780227179642

ISBN 10:   0227179641
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Author's Foreword 9 Introduction: The Swiss Background 11 Part One: The Formative Years 1. Childhood and Education 21 2. Vicar of Glarus and Chaplain in Italy 30 3. Chaplain A Einsiedeln: The Call To Zürich 40 4. Beginnings at Zürich: the ­Great Plague 48 Part Two: The Reformer 5. Zwingli, the Biblical Preacher 57 6. Ways and Means: the Temporizer 63 7. Lent, 1522: the Dramatic Affair of the Sausages 67 8. Final Attempts at Conciliation: the Rupture 71 Part Three: The Protestant Revolution 9. Abandonment of Ancient Practices 83 10. End of Chapter and Cloisters 87 11. From Mass to Lord's Supper 92

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'An exceedingly well planned volume, which, after an introductory essay on the Swiss people, takes the reader through every important aspect of Zwingli's career, including Marburg with all of its political and theological difficulties, and even manages to seize upon the appearance of Zwingli's Commentarius de vera et false religione (1525) to offer a descriptive review of Zwingli's theology in the course of some thirty pages. . . . A sound, eminently readable, even absorbing biography, that teaches us more about Zwingli, and does him greater justice, than any comparable volume I am aware of.' - Bart Thompson, in Church History    

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Jean Rilliet (1908-1980) was a Swiss reformed theologian. After studying in Strasbourg, Lausanne, Glasgow and Basel, he served as a pastor in Switzerland and abroad, and from 1964 at the Cathedral of St Pierre in Geneva. His doctoral thesis, on Alexandre Vinet, was completed in 1938, and in 1940 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Geneva, with research interests in Calvin, Barth and Ignatian theology. Besides his academic work, Rilliet wrote extensively on religion for the Geneva Tribune.

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