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Zwingli

By: Jean Rilliet

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Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Zürich 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.

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Zwingli

Third Man of the Reformation

By: Jean Rilliet

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Zwingli

Third Man of the Reformation

By: Jean Rilliet

Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Zurich 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.

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Calvin, 1509-1564

By: Jean Rilliet

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Calvin, 1509-1564

By: Jean Rilliet

Jean Calvin, né à Noyon le 10 juillet 1509, s’éteignit à Genève le 27 mai 1564. L’année 1964 sera donc un quatrième centenaire de sa mort. La phtisie, l’usure due à un travail acharné l’emportaient sur une constitution robuste. « Un Français, un authentique Français, a dit de lui Lucien Febvre, et qui posséda du génie français toutes les caractéristiques essentielles : la sobriété, la mesure, une logique impérieuse et souveraine, un sens critique avisé et redoutable, surtout le don de choisir. » A l’encontre de ce que l’on a prétendu, Calvin fut essentiellement sociable. Ses amis, ses admirateurs, ne se comptent pas. Il se passionnait pour les causes et les idées qui lui paraissaient justes. Loin d’être l’intellectuel glacé que certains imaginent, son tort fut plutôt de céder à ces « affections trop véhémentes » dont il s’accusa dans ses derniers entretiens. Jean Rilliet évoque la carrière du célèbre Picard comme un procès dont il s’efforce de placer les pièces essentielles sous les yeux du lecteur. Page après page, un visage se dessine où la ferveur s’accompagne de colère et la confiance en Dieu d’humaine obstination. Calvin ne fut pas étranger à la nature humaine. Comme Abraham, David et Pierre, il se révèle pétri de chair et de sang.

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2402293438

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Conflict and Agreement in the Church, Volume 2

The Ministry and the Sacraments of the Gospel

By: Jean Rilliet

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Conflict and Agreement in the Church, Volume 2

The Ministry and the Sacraments of the Gospel

By: Jean Rilliet

T.F. Torrance's Conflict and Agreement in the Church gathers together his most influential essays and articles on topics relating to ecumenism. Himself involved heavily in the ecumenical movement, he wrote that 'ours must be the task of learning together again how to confess, like the early Church, faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and God in all its breadth and length and height and depth, and therefore in the overflowing love of God.' Out of this conviction grew a comprehensive doctrine of the Church 'in which our differences are lost sight of because they are destroyed from behind by a masterful faith in the Saviour of men.' In the first volume, Torrance presents a set of essays engaging theologically with different denominations, along with responses to particular problems facing the ecumenical project. In particular, writing after the third world conference on faith and order, he addresses the hopes and barriers it raised to closer ecumenical relations. Throughout, Torrance's acute awareness of contrasting theological principles establishes a firm basis for further progress, without obscuring the doctrinal and ecclesiological differences that remain. In the second volume, Torrance's thought on inter-denominational cooperation in light of the Church's mission is presented. He begins by suggesting that 'the lines of conflict and agreement in the Church coincide less and less with the frontiers of the historic communions'. This opens the door for greater union between those communion, but also exposes significant challenges to unity within them. Addressing the major debates on the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist, along with the priesthood and biblical exegesis, Torrance proposes a constructive way forward sealed by 'reconciliation in the Body and Blood of Christ'.

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