Protestant Theologians - Huldrych Zwingli, Robert Barclay, John Amos Comenius, Desmond Ford, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gabriel Fackre, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Fritz Guy, Alden Thompson, Samuele Bacchiocchi, Lesslie Newbigin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Huldrych Zwingli, Robert Barclay, John Amos Comenius, Desmond Ford, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gabriel Fackre, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Fritz Guy, Alden Thompson, Samuele Bacchiocchi, Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Heppenstall, David Bosch, Langdon Brown Gilkey, Roger T. Forster, Jean Leclerc, Richard Carpenter, August Neander, Martin Hengel, Arthur Patrick, Jon Paulien, Erwin Lutzer, John H. Leith, Norm Young, M. L. Andreasen, Michael Welker, Richard Rice, Dieter Trautwein, Jack Deere, Cesar Malan, Alexander Craighead, Robert McAfee Brown, W. W. Prescott, Franklin Littel, Charles Caldwell Ryrie, James Gustafson, John Anderson, Frank Leslie Cross, Angel Manuel Rodriguez, Paul P. Enns, Georg Lasson, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit, Johann Peter Berg, Rudolf Kittel, George W. Knight III, G. I. Williamson, Gerhard Kittel, Heinrich Lhotzky, Walther Eichrodt, Paul Drews, Louis de Dieu. Excerpt: Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (1 January 1484 - 11 October 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism. He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus. In 1518, Zwingli became the pastor of the Grossmunster in Zurich where he began to preach ideas on reforming the Catholic Church. In his first public controversy in 1522, he attacked the custom of fasting during Lent. In his publications, he noted corruption in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, promoted clerical marriage, and attacked the use of images in places of worship. In 1525, Zwingli introduced a new communion liturgy to replace the mass. Zwingli also clashed with the Anabaptists, ..