Another Reformer, often unknown, was Heinrich Bullinger. Below are a few quotes – feel free to add your own.
“This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God’s image in us.”
“There was in our father Adam before his fall the very image and likeness of God.”
The ineffable mercy and divine grace of the eternal God are proven, first, in that God offers this covenant not in any way because of the merits of humans but rather out of the sheer goodness which is God’s nature. I do not know whether humans are capable of conceiving this mystery fully or conveying how praiseworthy it is (BE 104-105).
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Something not known as much, is that Bullinger’s ‘Decades’, a group of 50 sermons, in all aspects of theology, was used as a standard theological textbook in Elizabethan England. He had greatly influenced the Anglican Church in their balance of the doctrine and crisis over predestination. He was an infralapsarian. And here I follow myself.
Fr. R.
“In 1529 Bullinger’s father announced that he had been preaching false doctrines for years and now renounced them in favour of Protestant doctrines. As a result, his congregation decided to remove him as their priest. Several candidates were invited to preach sermons as potential replacements, including the young Bullinger. His sermon was so powerful that it led to an immediate burst of iconoclasm in the church, and the congregation spontaneously stripped the images from their church and burned them.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Bullinger
Thats something!