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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 · 1578–1579 · Other
For students of the Ascent: John's own sketch of the path up the mountain, with its sayings; a picture rather than a text.
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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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Caspar Olevianus · 1579 · Commentary
Caspar Olevianus's commentary on Romans emerged from the turbulent theological landscape of sixteenth-century Reformed Protestantism, written by one of the principal architects of the Heidelberg Catechism. Published in 1579, this systematic exposition…
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Unity of the Brethren scholars · 1579 · Scripture
The Bible of Kralice is a landmark Czech Bible, produced by scholars of the Unity of Brethren and named for the Moravian town of Kralice, where it was printed in the later…
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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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Luis de León · 1580–1591 · Commentary
Luis de León's commentary on the Book of Job emerged from his profound engagement with biblical wisdom literature during his years as a professor of theology at the University of Salamanca. Writing…
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Luis de León · 1580 · Commentary
Luis de León's Latin commentary on the Song of Solomon emerged from his scholarly work as an Augustinian friar and professor of theology at the University of Salamanca during the Spanish Golden…
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Ostrog scholarly circle under Prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski · 1581 · Scripture
Printed in 1581 at Ostroh in Volhynia, under the patronage of Prince Konstantin Ostrogski and with the press work of Ivan Fedorov, the Ostrog Bible was the first complete printed Bible in…
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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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John Jewel · 1582 · Treatise
John Jewel's "A View of a Seditious Bull" responds directly to Pope Pius V's papal bull "Regnans in Excelsis" (1570), which excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I and declared her subjects released from their…
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John Jewel · 1583 · Commentary
John Jewel's exposition on Paul's letters to the Thessalonians emerged from the urgent need to establish Reformed biblical interpretation within the newly Protestant Church of England. Writing as Bishop of Salisbury during…
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Luis de León · 1583–1585 · Treatise
Luis de León's The Names of Christ emerged from the theological ferment of sixteenth-century Spain, written during and after the author's imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition from 1572 to 1576. De León,…
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Luis de León · 1583–1585 · Treatise
Written during Luis de León's imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition from 1572 to 1576, this treatise emerged from the Augustinian friar's profound meditation on the person and nature of Christ while confined…
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Luis de León · 1583 · Treatise
La perfecta casada is a moral treatise on Christian marriage written by the Spanish Augustinian friar Luis de León in 1583. Composed during the height of the Counter-Reformation, the work emerged from…
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1584 · Treatise
Zacharias Ursinus composed this comprehensive systematic theology as the culmination of his career as professor of dogmatics at Heidelberg University. Published in 1584, the work emerged from decades of classroom lectures and…
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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 students of John's spiritual teaching: a short list of steps. There is no public-domain English translation; reachable here only in Spanish.
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