Zwingli and the wider-hope minority

From Sovereign Grace and the Scope of Election: A Comparative Examination of Attainment Theology and Grace Theology, with Particular Attention to the Question of Whether God's Elect Are Found Among All Nations and Religions

Finally, the tradition contains a bolder minority. Ulrich Zwingli, in his Exposition of the Faith addressed to the king of France, expressed the hope of meeting pious pagans of antiquity in glory, a hope for which Luther sharply rebuked him. Zwingli's ground was not that paganism saves but that election does, and that God's choice ranges where His Spirit ranges. One need not adopt Zwingli's confidence about particular names to recognize that the instinct, salvation bounded by election rather than by evangelistic reach, has been present at the highest levels of the tradition from the Reformation's first generation.

The historical summary is this: the doctrine of grace argued here is Augustinian and confessional in its substance; the doctrine of immediate regeneration is Reformed and Baptist in its pedigree; the extension of both to the unreached elect is a minority position, but a minority with names like Shedd and Zwingli in it, standing on a clause the confessions themselves wrote. The reader should weigh it as exactly that: not an eccentricity, and not the consensus, but a live position within the tradition's own logic.