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Teresa of Ávila · 1576 · Treatise
For readers interested in how Teresa governed: practical instructions for those who inspect convents.
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John of the Cross · 1577–1584 · Poem
For readers of poetry: the hunt of love, a secular falconry song turned to the soul's pursuit of God.
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Complete Works The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross
John of the Cross · 1577–1591 · Book
For readers who want all of John in one place; the individual works are catalogued separately and are better reading copies.
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Teresa of Ávila · 1577 · Book
For readers ready for her mature teaching: the soul as a castle of seven mansions, from first conversion to union; read after the Life and the Way.
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John of the Cross · 1577–1584 · Treatise
For readers drawn to the mystical love of God described as a love story between the soul and Christ; read after the Dark Night.
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Treatise
For anyone passing through a time when prayer and faith have gone dry: the classic account of that darkness and why it is a gift; best read after the poem it explains.
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John of the Cross · 1578–1591 · Poem
For readers of mystical poetry: a gloss on wanting the "I know not what" beyond all beauty.
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
For any reader: the fountain known by faith though it is night; short and memorable.
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John of the Cross · 1578–1580 · Poem
For readers of mystical poetry: a short poem on knowing God beyond knowledge.
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
For readers of devotional poetry: the soul longing to die and see God, on a theme shared with Teresa.
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
For everyone: eight stanzas, among the greatest poems in Spanish, and the best first thing of his to read.
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John of the Cross · 1578–1579 · Poem
For readers of the Psalms: Psalm 137 paraphrased as a poem of exile and love, written in prison.
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John of the Cross · 1578–1579 · Poem
For readers who want the Trinity, creation and the Incarnation told as a simple ballad sequence.
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John of the Cross · 1578–1584 · Poem
For any reader of poetry or prayer; the poem the Spiritual Canticle commentary explains, and worth reading on its own first.
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John of the Cross · 1578 · Poem
For readers of mystical poetry: a gloss on living without support and with support in God.
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John of the Cross · 1579–1585 · Treatise
For readers serious about the spiritual life who want the demanding, practical companion to the Dark Night: detachment from everything that is not God; not a first book.
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John of the Cross · 1581–1591 · Letter
For readers who want John as a director of souls: short letters of advice to nuns and friends.
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John of the Cross · 1582 · Poem
For any reader: a short pastoral poem on Christ's love on the cross.
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English College scholars; NT chiefly Gregory Martin, revised by William Allen and others · 1582 · Scripture
The Douay-Rheims Bible was the first complete English Catholic Bible and served as the principal Catholic counterpart to the Protestant English versions circulating in the same period. Produced by English Catholic exiles…
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John of the Cross · 1582–1585 · Treatise
For experienced readers of John: the shortest of his four commentaries, on the union of the soul with God at its height; read last.
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1584 · Commentary
Zacharias Ursinus wrote this detailed commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism in response to persistent requests from students and pastors who had witnessed his classroom lectures on the catechism at the theological school…
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John of the Cross · 1584–1591 · Other
For any reader wanting John in small doses: short sayings for daily reading, his most accessible prose.
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John of the Cross · 1585 · Poem
For any reader: four short stanzas on the soul aflame with God, the poem behind the Living Flame.
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John Knox · 1587 · Book
John Knox's History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland stands as both historical chronicle and theological manifesto, written by the fiery Scottish reformer who lived through the tumultuous events he describes.…
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