Commentary on True and False Religion

by Ulrich Zwingli, Samuel M. Jackson (Editor), Clarence N. Heller (Editor)

Overview

Next to Luther himself, Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) was probably the most important and certainly the most influential of the early Protestant reformers. His Commentary on True and False Religion, addressed to King Francis I of France and published by the printer Froschauer in Zurich in 1525, contrasted what Zwingli regarded as the true religion of the Protestants, grounded in Scripture, with the false religion of tradition and reason advocated by the opponents of the Reformation. In twenty-nine chapters Zwingli discussed all of the principal topics of Christian theology, from the meaning of the word "religion" itself to the role and place of images in Christian worship. All the disputed issues of the early Reformation--the doctrine of Church and ministry, baptism, penance, eucharist, the nature of civil authority--are explained lucidly and concisely. The Commentary makes clear not only the grounds for Zwingli's break with the medieval Catholic tradition in which he had been raised but also the nature of his disagreements with Erasmus, Luther, and the Swiss Anabaptists. The result is the most significant dogmatic work which Zwingli ever wrote and the most important systematic statement of Reformed theology before Calvin's Institutes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725235892
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	06/18/2015
Series:	The Latin Works and Correspondence of Huldreich Zwingli , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	59 MB
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Table of Contents

Preface William Walker Rockwell iii

I Commentary on True and False Religion

Introduction George Warren Richards 1

Translation

Address to Francis I 43

To the Reader 54

The Word "Religion" 56

Between whom Religion Subsists 58

God 58

Man 75

Religion 87

The Christian Religion 98

The Gospel 118

Repentance 131

The Law 137

Sin 138

The Sin Against the Holy Ghost 153

The Keys 157

The Church. I 176

The Church. II. (Reply to Emser) 166

The Sacraments 179

Marriage. I 184

Baptism 185

The Eucharist 197

Confession 253

The other Sacraments 256

Marriage. II 257

Vows 260

Invocation of Saints 267

Merit 271

Prayer 279

Purgatory 283

Magisterial Office 293

Offence 318

Statues and Images 330

Epilogue 337

II Reply to Emser

Introduction George Warren Richards 344

Translation

Address to Emser 360

The Church 366

The Intercession of Saints 382

Merit 388

The Mass 392

Purgatory 394

Index 399