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John Knox · 1559–1566 · Book
John Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland stands as both historical chronicle and passionate manifesto, written by the fiery Scottish reformer who helped lead his nation's break from Roman Catholicism. Knox…
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John Knox · 1560 · Treatise
John Knox wrote this treatise in 1560 to defend the Protestant Reformation in Scotland against Catholic theological objections. The work emerged during a period of intense religious controversy following the Scottish Parliament's…
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John Jewel · 1560–1570 · Sermon
These sermons represent John Jewel's direct engagement with the theological and political upheavals of early Elizabethan England. As Bishop of Salisbury and one of the chief architects of Anglican apologetics, Jewel delivered…
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Martin Bucer · 1560 · Treatise
Martin Bucer's Loci Communes represents the systematic theological legacy of one of the most influential yet often overlooked reformers of the sixteenth century. Completed in the final year of his life while…
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Theodore Beza · 1560 · Treatise
Theodore Beza's Confessio Christianae Fidei stands as one of the most personal and intellectually rigorous defenses of Reformed theology produced in the sixteenth century. Written in 1560 during Beza's early years as…
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John Knox · 1560 · Treatise
The First Book of Discipline emerged from the urgent practical needs of the newly Reformed Church of Scotland in 1560. Written primarily by John Knox and five other ministers commissioned by the…
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English Protestant exiles; including William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson · 1560 · Scripture
Produced by English Protestant exiles in Geneva and first published in 1560, this version became the dominant English household Bible before the King James Version and a landmark study Bible. It presents…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1560–1582 · Other
For any reader wanting Teresa in small doses: brief counsels for daily life in community.
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Luis de León · 1560–1591 · Poem
The poems of Fray Luis de León emerged from one of the most turbulent periods in Spanish intellectual and religious history. Writing during the height of the Spanish Inquisition, this Augustinian friar…
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John Knox · 1560 · Treatise
The Scots Confession emerged from the turbulent moment when Scotland formally broke with Rome and established a Reformed church. Written in 1560 by John Knox and five other ministers at the request…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1560–1581 · Other
For readers of the Life who want what came after: her accounts of her prayer written for her confessors.
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Test Author · 1560 · Book
This is a TEST RECORD ONLY
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Teresa of Ávila · 1560–1582 · Poem
For readers of devotional verse: short poems and songs written for her convents, including "Let nothing disturb you".
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Works The Works of John Jewel
John Jewel · 1560–1609 · Other
The Works of John Jewel represent the intellectual foundation of Elizabethan Anglicanism, emerging from the turbulent religious upheavals of sixteenth-century England. As Bishop of Salisbury from 1560 until his death in 1571,…
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Works The Works of John Knox
John Knox · 1560–1572 · Other
The collected works of John Knox represent the literary output of Scotland's foremost Reformer during the turbulent decades when Protestant faith took root in his homeland. Writing between 1560 and his death…
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Luis de León · 1561–1591 · Commentary
Luis de León's Commentaria in Sacram Scripturam represents the mature biblical scholarship of one of sixteenth-century Spain's most distinguished theologian-poets. Composed during his tenure as professor of theology at the University of…
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Commentary on Judges In librum Iudicum commentarii doctissimi
Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1561 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's learned commentary on the book of Judges emerged from his years of biblical teaching at Oxford and Strasbourg, representing one of the most sophisticated Reformed treatments of this challenging…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1561 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz wrote this comprehensive treatise on the Lord's Supper in 1561, during the heated sacramental controversies that fractured the Protestant Reformation. As one of the leading Lutheran theologians of the second…
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Johannes Brenz · 1561 · Treatise
Johannes Brenz's treatise on the personal union of the two natures in Christ emerged from the heated christological controversies that divided German Lutheranism in the mid-sixteenth century. As a leading theologian in…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1561–1582 · Letter
For readers who want Teresa as she spoke to friends, family and bishops: lively, shrewd and funny; dip in rather than read through.
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Absolute Predestination De Praedestinatione Sanctorum Tractatio Absoluta
Girolamo Zanchi · 1562 · Treatise
Girolamo Zanchi's treatise on absolute predestination emerged from the theological controversies that erupted in the Reformed churches during the mid-sixteenth century. Writing in 1562 as professor of theology at Strasbourg, Zanchi found…
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John Jewel · 1562 · Treatise
John Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae stands as the first systematic defense of the Church of England's break from Rome and its theological distinctives. Written in 1562, just four years after Elizabeth I's…
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John Jewel · 1562 · Treatise
John Jewel's Apology of the Church of England stands as the first systematic defense of the Elizabethan religious settlement and the emerging Anglican church. Written in Latin in 1562, just four years…
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1562–1576 · Treatise
The Explicationes Catecheticae represents Zacharias Ursinus's systematic theological exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism, developed through his lectures at the University of Heidelberg during the 1560s and 1570s. As one of the primary…
