Huldrych Zwingli : His Life and Work. By Ulrich Gabler ; Translated by Ruth C.L. Gritsch. EDINBURGH : 1987.

Edinburgh: T & T Clark - Continuum [ Sheffield Academic Press ], 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. FIRST UK EDITION : EDINBURGH : 1987. Hardback. Black cloth; gilt lettered spine. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. NEAR FINE. (xii), 196 pages. Includes bibliographical references. Index. CONTENTS : I. The environment -- 1. The legal structure of the Swiss confederation -- 2. The confederation at the beginning of the sixteenth century -- 3. Zurich -- Governmental power and political institutions -- Economy -- Church -- 4. Bibliography - PART II. Childhood and student years -- 1. The problem of a Zwingli biography -- 2. Family, childhood, school years (1484-1498) -- 3. University studies in Vienna and Basel (1498-1506) -- 4. The fruits of education -- 5. Bibliography. PART III. Pastorate in Glarus and Einsiedeln (1506-1518) -- 1. Pastorate in Glarus (1506-1516) -- 2. Pastorate in Einsiedeln (1516-1518) -- 3. Inner development -- Sources -- Further development through reading of classical, patristic, and scholastic works -- Turn to Erasmus -- 4. Bibliography -- PART IV. Awakening in Zurich (1519-1522) -- 1. The call -- 2. The preaching task -- 3. The problem of Zwingli's "Reformatory about-face" -- 4. Critical preaching -- 5. The beginning of public controversy -- Fasting practices -- Confrontation with the Mendicant orders -- Repudiation of Episcopal authority -- Clarification of the understanding of scripture and veneration of saints -- 6. Bibliography. PART V. Breakthrough in Zurich (1523-1525) -- 1. The First Zurich Disputation, January 19, 1523 -- Theological development: Analysis and reasons for the concluding statements -- 3. The Second Zurich Disputation, October 26-28, 1523 -- 4. Political threat and theological maturing (1523-1525) -- Reluctant ecclesiastical renewals -- Local currents of opposition in Zurich -- The Confederates states' intervention -- Theological growth: The commentary -- 5. Bibliography. PART VI. church reorganization (1524-1526) -- 1. Reformatory movement and social situation -- Social and political shifts -- Social-political demands and Zwingli's position -- 2. Dissolution of monasteries and welfare measures -- 3. Reform of the great Minster -- Economic reorganization -- The prophecy -- Zwingli's exegetical works -- The Zurich Bible -- 4. Domestic relations and morals courts -- 5. Worship service, ecclesiastical art, Zwingli's songs -- 6. Bibliography. PART VII. Reformation in the confederation (1524-1529) -- 1. The Baden Disputation of 1526 -- 2. Confessional division of the confederation (1526-1529) -- 3. Reformation in Bern -- 4. Confessional alliances and common lordships (First Kappel War) -- 5. Bibliography. PART VIII. Conflict about the sacraments -- 1. The argument with Anabaptists -- 2. The Lord's Supper controversy -- 3. Bibliography - PART IX. Confession and politics (1529-1531) -- 1. Plans for alliances -- 2. The Augsburg Diet of 1530 and Zwingli's Confessions: Account of Faith and On God's Providence -- 3. From the First to the Second Kappel War -- 4. Bibliography. PART X. Zwingli's historical impact -- 1. The problem -- 2. Coming to terms with the defeat at Kappel -- 3. Heinrich Bullinger and John Calvin -- 4. The Zwingli image from the sixteenth to the twentieth century -- 5. Bibliography - PART XI. Bibliographical survey -- 1. Bibliographies -- 2. Collections of sources on the Zurich Reformation. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].