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...Word of God, and not in the papal teachings of the corrupt, corrupting, 16th century Roman Church. Zwingli thus became the architect of the Swiss Reformation. But he remains the least known of the great Protestant fathers. His story has now been told with sympathy and scholarship by Genevan Pastor-Historian Jean Rilliet, in Zwingli: Third Man of the Reformation (Westminster...
Born in 1484, Zwingli studied at the universities of Basel and Vienna before his ordination. In an age of semiliterate priests, he managed to combine his duties as a country pastor at Glarus with genuine scholarship: he had a library of 350 volumes, studied the Scriptures in Greek and Hebrew, corresponded with the great Renaissance humanist Erasmus...
...tongues" has caught on with Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians, and there is now a national association of glossolalists, the Blessed Trinity Society in Van Nuys, Calif. At least 260 of the 5,239 American Lutheran churches have glossolalia cells; many of them took up the practice after Pastor Mjorud stopped by to preach at revival meetings...
...Theodore F. Adams, pastor, First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., former president (1955-60) of the Baptist World Alliance...
...forbidding in tone and terminology, the editors argue that the problems considered are not purely academic. Far from being a blue-sky issue, hermeneutic grapples with something that faces every preacher-how to make God's word vivid for a congregation-and represents a link between the pastoral ministry and academic theology. Says Robinson: "The new hermeneutic is designed to help the pastor do what he's paid to do: to tell people about Christianity in terms of their own lives...