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Teresa of Ávila · 1562–1565 · Book
For any reader who wants to know Teresa: her own story of a divided life turned to God, with the image of the four waters of prayer; the best first book.
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John Foxe · 1563–1583 · Book
John Foxe's monumental martyrology emerged from the religious upheavals of sixteenth-century England, as Protestant reformers sought to establish their legitimacy against Roman Catholic claims to apostolic succession. Writing during the reign of…
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John Foxe · 1563 · Book
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, universally known as the Book of Martyrs, emerged from the religious upheavals of sixteenth-century England as both historical chronicle and Protestant propaganda. First published in Latin in…
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Polish Calvinist scholars · 1563 · Scripture
The Brest Bible was the first major Protestant Polish Bible to be translated from the original languages, and it remains a landmark in the history of vernacular Scripture in Poland. Published in…
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Council of Trent · 1563 · Other
The Decree on the Sacrament of Marriage emerged from the Council of Trent's twenty-fourth session in November 1563, representing the Catholic Church's definitive response to Protestant challenges regarding marriage and clerical celibacy.…
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Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1564 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's learned commentary on First Samuel emerged from his lectures at the University of Strasbourg in the 1550s, where he served as professor of Hebrew and Old Testament after his…
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Miles Coverdale · 1564 · Other
Miles Coverdale's Letters of the Martyrs emerged from the urgent need to preserve and circulate the testimonies of Protestant reformers who died under Queen Mary's reign of terror from 1553 to 1558.…
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Theodore Beza · 1564 · Other
Theodore Beza's Vita Calvini stands as the foundational biography of John Calvin, written immediately following the Genevan reformer's death in 1564. As Calvin's chosen successor and closest collaborator during his final years,…
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Johannes Brenz · 1564 · Treatise
Johannes Brenz's "Questiones de religione inter Protestantes controversae" emerged from the intensifying theological disputes among Protestant reformers in the mid-sixteenth century. Written in 1564, near the end of Brenz's life as a…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1565–1573 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz's Examination of the Council of Trent stands as the most comprehensive and systematic Lutheran response to the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. Written across eight years following Trent's conclusion in 1563, this…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1565–1573 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz's Examination of the Council of Trent stands as the most comprehensive Lutheran response to the Catholic Counter-Reformation's defining doctrinal statements. Written between 1565 and 1573, this systematic treatise emerged as…
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John Jewel · 1565 · Treatise
John Jewel's Reply unto M. Harding's Answer represents the second volley in one of the most significant theological exchanges of the early Elizabethan settlement. When Thomas Harding, Jewel's former colleague at Oxford…
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Theodore Beza · 1565 · Commentary
Theodore Beza's Novum Testamentum represents one of the most significant New Testament editions of the sixteenth century, produced by Calvin's successor in Geneva during the height of Reformed biblical scholarship. Following his…
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Commentary on Kings In libros Regum commentarii doctissimi
Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1566 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's commentary on the Books of Kings emerged from his lectures delivered at the University of Strasbourg in the 1550s, where he held the chair of Old Testament studies. This…
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Heinrich Bullinger · 1566 · Treatise
The Second Helvetic Confession stands as one of the most comprehensive and influential Reformed confessions of faith, written by Heinrich Bullinger in 1566. Originally composed as Bullinger's personal confession of faith, it…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1566 · Book
For anyone learning to pray: written for her nuns, practical and warm, built around the Our Father; read after the Life.
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Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1567 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's commentary on First Corinthians emerged from his lectures delivered at the University of Strasbourg in the 1540s and 1550s, published posthumously in 1567. As one of the most learned…
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John Jewel · 1567 · Treatise
John Jewel's Defence emerged from the fierce theological battles of the early Elizabethan settlement, written as a direct response to Thomas Harding's comprehensive attack on Jewel's earlier Apology of the Church of…
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Firm Foundation A Firm Foundation: An Aid to Interpreting the Heidelberg Catechism
Caspar Olevianus · 1567 · Commentary
A Firm Foundation emerged from the immediate practical needs of Reformed churches in the Palatinate following the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism in 1563. Caspar Olevianus, one of the catechism's principal architects…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1567 · Other
For readers interested in how Teresa organised the reformed Carmelite life; a rule, not devotional reading.
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Committee of Church of England bishops under Matthew Parker · 1568 · Scripture
The Bishops' Bible was the Church of England's official answer to the Geneva Bible, produced under episcopal oversight and closely associated with episcopal authority. Covering the complete Bible, it drew on Hebrew,…
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Bear Bible Reina Bible / Biblia del Oso
Casiodoro de Reina · 1569 · Scripture
The Reina Bible, commonly called the Biblia del Oso, is a foundational Spanish Protestant Bible, produced by Casiodoro de Reina and published in 1569. Rather than adapting an existing version, it offered…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1569 · Treatise
For prayer rather than study: seventeen short outpourings of the soul to God, best read slowly, one at a time.
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Martin Chemnitz · 1569 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz composed this systematic theological treatise in 1569 as part of the Lutheran church's ongoing effort to articulate its doctrinal positions in the decades following Luther's death. Writing during a period…
