Zwingli - Rilliet, Jean

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Résumé :
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 Z?rich 40 4. Beginnings at Z?rich: 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...

Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:
Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Z?rich is the 'great unknown' of the Reformation in Europe, and yet his influence and ideas have penetrated into every part of the world where the Reformed tradition has been planted. He was neither a passionate man of religion like Luther, nor a superb dialectician like Calvin. But in his lucid radicalism and belief in thorough reform in Church doctrine as well as in government, Zwingli stands with his two more famous brethren as a 'Father of the Reformation'. First published in English in 1964, Jean Rilliet's biography places Zwingli in the context of Swiss church history, as well as that of the sixteenth-century upheaval of which he was a part. Covering every aspect of Zwingli's career, with detailed discussion of his more influential writings, the picture that emerges is one of a 'fighting prophet', unremittent in his search for God in this most turbulent of times....