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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
In 1520, the same year he published his three great Reformation treatises, Martin Luther also issued a small pastoral work in German for ordinary people who could not read Scripture for themselves.…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
Confitendi Ratio, published in Latin at Wittenberg in 1520, is Martin Luther's treatment of private confession written in the crowded year between the Leipzig Debate and the great reforming treatises of the…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
A Treatise Concerning the Ban (Sermon von dem Bann) is a short German tract Luther published at Wittenberg in 1520, reworking a sermon he had preached there the previous year on excommunication.…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For readers who think Luther despised good works: his longest answer, walking through the Ten Commandments to show faith as the first work and the source of all the rest. Plain and practical.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
In the summer of 1520, between The Treatise on Good Works and The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther published a short German pamphlet with the title Ein Sermon von dem…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
The best first Luther: thirty short sections on faith that frees and love that serves. For any reader; nothing here needs a theology degree.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For readers who want Luther's case against the medieval sacraments, from seven to two. Close argument with scholastic terms and much Latin background; not a first read.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For anyone suffering or caring for the sick: Luther's book of comfort, written for his ill prince, setting seven evils against seven blessings. Gentle, short and devotional.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
On the Papacy in Rome, against the Most Celebrated Romanist in Leipzig is a German polemical treatise Luther published in the summer of 1520, in the months between the Leipzig debate and…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For readers of history and church reform: Luther's call to the German princes to reform the church themselves. Lively, angry and practical; it assumes some knowledge of 1520 Germany and Rome.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Treatise
Luther's 1521 answer, article by article, to the forty-one propositions condemned in the papal bull Exsurge Domine.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Treatise
Luther's longest answer to Hieronymus Emser (1521), on the priesthood of all believers and on how Scripture is to be read.
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Desiderius Erasmus · 1521 · Treatise
Erasmus composed this treatise on contempt for the world during his time as a young Augustinian canon at Steyn monastery in the Netherlands, completing it around 1490 though it was not published…
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Letter
Luther's second reply to Hieronymus Emser, early 1521, in the exchange over his Address to the Christian Nobility.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Commentary
Luther's exposition of Mary's song (Luke 1:46–55), written in 1520–21 for the young prince John Frederick of Saxony on how God regards the lowly.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Letter
A short open letter of 1521 against Hieronymus Emser of Leipzig, whose coat of arms bore a goat; the first of Luther's three replies to him that year.
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Treatise
Luther's 1522 warning, written from the Wartburg, that the gospel must spread by preaching and not by riot, even against the clergy's abuses.
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Martin Luther · 1522–1544 · Sermon
For preachers and devotional readers: Luther's model sermons on the Sunday Epistles and Gospels, written for pastors to read aloud. Take one sermon at a time.
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Scripture
Readers of German, and anyone studying the Reformation, the history of Bible translation or the making of the German language.
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Huldrych Zwingli · 1522 · Treatise
Zwingli's treatise emerged from the early turbulence of the Swiss Reformation, written as he defended his preaching ministry in Zurich against accusations of innovation and heresy. Church authorities challenged his practice of…
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Treatise
For anyone about to read Romans, or wanting Luther's gospel in one sitting: what law, sin, grace, faith and flesh mean in Paul. The preface John Wesley heard read at Aldersgate.
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Treatise
This short treatise, published in German in 1522 under the title Von Menschenlehre zu meiden, belongs to the year Luther came down from the Wartburg to a Wittenberg in turmoil. The quarrel…
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Sermon
For readers interested in how reform should proceed: eight sermons Luther preached on his return from the Wartburg, calming a city that had changed too fast. Short, pastoral and timely.
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Ignatius of Loyola · 1522–1548 · Treatise
The Spiritual Exercises emerged from Ignatius of Loyola's own profound conversion experience following a leg wound suffered during the 1521 siege of Pamplona. During his lengthy convalescence, this former soldier underwent a…
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