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Martin Luther · 1524 · Letter
Luther's 1524 appeal to the town councils to found and pay for schools for boys and girls, and libraries, for the sake of the church and the town.
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Martin Luther · 1525 · Book
For serious readers: Luther's reply to Erasmus on whether the will is free before God, the book he called his best. Hard, combative and long; read the Freedom of a Christian first.
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William Tyndale · 1525 · Treatise
William Tyndale's "A Pathway into the Holy Scripture" stands as one of the earliest English treatises on biblical interpretation, written in 1525 as a preface to his translation of the New Testament.…
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William Tyndale · 1525 · Scripture
William Tyndale's translation stands as a foundational source for the later English Bible, and much of his wording survives in the King James Version and beyond. In scope it comprises the complete…
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William Tyndale · 1528 · Treatise
William Tyndale's treatise emerges from the heated theological controversies of the early English Reformation, written while he lived in exile on the continent. Published in 1528, this work addresses the fundamental Protestant…
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Martin Luther · 1528 · Other
The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars is not Luther's own composition but an anonymous pamphlet, the Liber Vagatorum, which had circulated in southern Germany since the first decade of the sixteenth century…
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Martin Luther · 1529 · Treatise
For anyone who wants plain Christian teaching: the Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer and sacraments explained for households and pastors. Warm, blunt and readable.
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Martin Luther · 1529 · Treatise
For every reader, and especially new Christians and families: the faith in a few pages of questions and answers, meant to be learned by heart.
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Martin Luther · 1530 · Sermon
Luther's 1530 sermon to parents on why their children should be kept at school, for the ministry and for civic offices alike.
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Martin Luther · 1530 · Letter
For anyone interested in Bible translation or the German language: Luther defends adding 'alone' to Romans 3:28 and explains how he made Scripture speak German. Short, witty and sharp.
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Hugh Latimer · 1530–1540 · Letter
Hugh Latimer's correspondence with Henry VIII spans the turbulent decade when England broke from Rome and established royal supremacy over the church. Writing as Bishop of Worcester from 1535 to 1539, and…
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Philip Melanchthon · 1530 · Treatise
The Augsburg Confession stands as the foundational doctrinal statement of Lutheran Christianity, written by Philip Melanchthon and presented to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. The Protestant territories…
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Martin Luther · 1531–1533 · Commentary
For anyone praying through the Psalter: each psalm, then a page on what it is about and how to pray it, with Luther's own Preface to the Psalms first. A companion to keep beside the Psalms.
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Philip Melanchthon · 1531 · Treatise
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession stands as Philip Melanchthon's scholarly defense of Lutheran theology, written in response to the Roman Catholic Confutation that rejected the original Augsburg Confession presented to Emperor…
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Martin Luther · 1531–1546 · Other
For browsers: Luther at supper on God, the devil, marriage, popes and beer, as his students wrote it down. Read a few pages at a time; it is a collection of sayings, not an argument.
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Martin Luther · 1532 · Commentary
For readers of the Gospels: Luther preaching through Matthew 5–7 on the Christian in the world, the two kingdoms and daily life. Practical sermons, not lectures.
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Thomas More · 1534–1535 · Treatise
Thomas More composed this treatise during his final imprisonment in the Tower of London between 1534 and 1535, as he awaited execution for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII's supremacy over the English…
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Martin Luther · 1535 · Commentary
For readers who want Luther on faith and the law at full length: the commentary Bunyan and Charles Wesley read at their conversions. Long and repetitive, but direct and pastoral.
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Scripture
The Coverdale Bible, the work of Miles Coverdale and printed in 1535, was the first complete printed Bible in English. Its scope is the whole Bible, but it was not drawn from…
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Book
Miles Coverdale's translation stands as the first complete English Bible to be printed, emerging from the turbulent religious landscape of Henry VIII's England. Working primarily from Martin Luther's German translation and the…
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Martin Luther · 1535–1545 · Commentary
For patient readers of Scripture: Luther's last and longest lectures, verse by verse through Genesis. The free English covers only the opening chapters.
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Hugh Latimer · 1535–1555 · Sermon
Hugh Latimer's sermons emerged from the turbulent decades of the English Reformation, when the newly established Church of England desperately needed preachers who could articulate Protestant doctrine in language ordinary people could…
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John Calvin · 1536–1559 · Treatise
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion stands as the most comprehensive and influential work of Reformed systematic theology. First published in 1536 as a brief manual for Protestant believers facing persecution in…
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John Rogers ('Thomas Matthew'), using Tyndale and Coverdale · 1537 · Scripture
The Matthew Bible, published in 1537 and generally attributed to John Rogers under the name "Thomas Matthew," was the first complete English Bible to draw on Tyndale's translations on a large scale…
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