The Bible

Als charismatischer Prediger veränderte Zwingli die Kirche und Gesellschaft in Zürich und inspirierte Anhänger in ganz Europa. Er legte das Fundament der reformierten Tradition, die Johannes Calvin später weiterentwickelte und zu einer weltweit einflussreichen Konfession formte. Doch Zwingli blieb umstritten: Viele Zeitgenossen sahen in ihm einen Aufwiegler und Ketzer, dessen kompromisslose Haltung und kriegerische Rhetorik den Frieden gefährdeten. Seine Vision führte ihn ins persönliche Verderben - er verlor die Kontrolle über seine Bewegung und fiel auf dem Schlachtfeld im Kampf gegen seine katholischen Gegner.Die deutsche Übersetzung von Bruce Gordons 2021 erschienener Biografie bietet neue Perspektiven auf die frühe Reformation in der Schweiz und auf die Schlüsselrolle, die Zwingli darin spielte.

'Wonderful' JOHN BARTON<BR><BR>'A stupendous intellectual achievement' ANDREW PETTEGREE<BR><BR>'A stunning love song to the Bible . . . this will be a classic' CHINE MCDONALD<BR><BR>The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history.<BR><BR>The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and probably never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hear God speak. Available in over three thousand languages and taking innumerable forms, each version is a revelation, evolving as a reflection of its own culture and moment.<BR><BR> Bruce Gordon traces the Bible's astounding journey from its emergence as a codex in the second century, to the Reformation, to the spectacular growth of Christianity in the Global South today. For centuries a source of inspiration, it has also been a tool for violence and oppression, weaponised in the name of colonialism, and it has expressed hopes for freedom in the struggle for liberation. Found in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages, it has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, a product of more than two thousand years of wandering, restlessness and change.<BR><BR>Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible is a sweeping history of this sacred book told through the stories of its diverse human encounters in search of the divine - revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.