Ulrich Zwingli & the Swiss Reformation
| BIBLIOGRAPHIES |
| - New Testament |
| - Early Christianity |
| - Medieval Christianity |
| - The Reformation |
| - Spirituality & Mysticism |
| - Sacraments |
| - 20th-Century Theology |
| #1: Surveys, Intros |
| #2: Erasmus |
| #3: Martin Luther |
| #4: Martin Bucer |
| #5: Ulrich Zwingli |
| #6: John Calvin |
| #7: Ignatius of Loyola |
1. ZWINGLI: BIOGRAPHY & THEOLOGY
W.P. Stephens, Zwingli: An Introduction to His Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) paperback. A fine study of the Swiss reformer and patriot. Zwingli battled fiercely with Luther over the eucharist and with the Anabaptists over infant baptism. An intriguing and controversial figure who gave the Swiss reformation its unique stamp.
Ulrich Gabler, Huldrych Zwingli: His Life and Work, trans. Ruth C.L. Gritsch (1986; reprint: London: T&T Clark, 1999) paperback.
Charles Garside, Zwingli and the Arts (reprint of Yale Press edition: DaCapo Press, 1981).
G.R. Potter, Zwingli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).
Bart Jan Spruyt, ed., Cornelius Henrici Hoen (Honius) and His Epistle on the Eucharist (1525): Medieval Heresy, Erasmian Humanism, and the Reform of Early Sixteenth-Century Low Countries (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
W.P. Stephen, The Theology of Huldrych Zwingli (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Lee Palmer Wandel, Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) paperback, $22.
2. ZWINGLI: TEXTS
G.W. Bromiley, ed., Zwingli and Bullinger, Library of Christian Classics (reprint of 1953 edition: Nashville: Westminster John Knox, 1973) paperback, $30.
Ulrich Zwingli, On Providence and Other Writings, ed. Samuel M. Jackson (Durham: Labyrinth Press, 1983; reprint of 1922 edition).
Ulrich Zwingli, Commentary on True and False Religion, ed. Samuel M. Jackson & Clarence N. Heller (Durham: Labyrinth Press, 1981; reprint of 1929 edition).
3. MENNO SIMONS & THE ANABAPTISTS: STUDIES & TEXTS
George H. Williams, Radical Reformation, 3rd edition (Truman State University Press, 2000) paperback, $75. A superb and almost day-by-day account of the Anabaptists, Spirituals, and other radicals at the edge of the Reformation.
Michael G. Baylor, ed., The Radical Reformation, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) paperback, $23.
Daniel Liechty, ed., Early Anabaptist Spirituality, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Paulist Press, 1994) paperback, $20. A fine survey of key figures and texts.
Menno Simons, The Complete Writings, trans. Leonard Verduin (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1956). Founder of the Mennonites and the greatest theologian of the Anabaptists. See especially his Foundation of Christian Doctrine, the summa of the Anabaptists. A bit long-winded, but all the core ideas are there.
George H. Williams, ed., Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers: Documents Illustrative of the Radical Reformation, Library of Christian Classics (Nashville: Westminster John Knox, 1957).
4. SPECIAL TOPICS
Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, et al., The Reformation of the Bible / The Bible of the Reformation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). At the heart of the Reformation was a debate over the Bible, its text and its meaning. This study explores the Bible's role in the Reformation in terms of exegesis, doctrine, and piety.
Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, eds., The Catholicity of the Reformation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996) paperback, $14.
John Dillenberger, Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) hardcover, $55.
Bridget Heal, The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648, Past and Present Publications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) hardcover, $99.
Carter Lindberg, Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) paperback, $22.
Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Church: The Age of the Reformation (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002) paperback, $45.
Richard A. Muller and John L. Thompson, eds., Biblical Interpretation in the Era of the Reformation: Essays Presented to David C. Steinmetz in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997) hardcover.
Allan K. Jenkins & Patrick Preston, Biblical Scholarship and the Church: A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority, Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007) hardcover, $100.
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