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Martin Luther · 1530 · Sermon
Luther's 1530 sermon to parents on why their children should be kept at school, for the ministry and for civic offices alike.
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Huldrych Zwingli · 1530 · Treatise
Huldrych Zwingli composed this theological treatise in 1530 as his final systematic statement of Reformed doctrine, written in the shadow of mounting political tensions between Protestant and Catholic cantons in Switzerland. Originally…
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Martin Luther · 1530 · Letter
For anyone interested in Bible translation or the German language: Luther defends adding 'alone' to Romans 3:28 and explains how he made Scripture speak German. Short, witty and sharp.
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Francisco de Osuna · 1530 · Treatise
Francisco de Osuna's Fourth Spiritual Alphabet stands as the masterwork of early sixteenth-century Spanish mysticism, written by a Franciscan friar who helped shape the golden age of Iberian spirituality. Composed in 1530,…
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Francisco de Osuna · 1530 · Treatise
Francisco de Osuna's Ley de Amor, completed in 1530, represents the culmination of his mystical writings and his most systematic exposition of the spiritual life. Written as the fourth and final volume…
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Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples · 1530 · Scripture
Associated with the French humanist scholar Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, this sixteenth-century undertaking produced an early complete printed French Bible and stands as an important milestone in continental vernacular Scripture. Covering the complete…
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Hugh Latimer · 1530–1540 · Letter
Hugh Latimer's correspondence with Henry VIII spans the turbulent decade when England broke from Rome and established royal supremacy over the church. Writing as Bishop of Worcester from 1535 to 1539, and…
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Pentateuch The Five Books of Moses Called the Pentateuch
William Tyndale · 1530–1534 · Commentary
William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch represents the first direct rendering of the Hebrew Torah into English, produced during his exile in continental Europe between 1530 and 1534. Working from Hebrew and…
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William Tyndale · 1530 · Treatise
William Tyndale's fierce polemic against ecclesiastical power emerged from his exile in the Low Countries, written as Henry VIII's marriage crisis reached its peak in 1530. Tyndale, already branded a heretic for…
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Francisco de Osuna · 1530 · Treatise
Francisco de Osuna's Second Spiritual Alphabet is a systematic guide to contemplative prayer written for the growing community of reformed Franciscans in early sixteenth-century Spain. Published in 1530, this treatise emerged during…
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Philip Melanchthon · 1530 · Treatise
The Augsburg Confession stands as the foundational doctrinal statement of Lutheran Christianity, written by Philip Melanchthon and presented to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. The Protestant territories…
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Martin Luther · 1531–1533 · Commentary
For anyone praying through the Psalter: each psalm, then a page on what it is about and how to pray it, with Luther's own Preface to the Psalms first. A companion to keep beside the Psalms.
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William Tyndale · 1531 · Treatise
William Tyndale's "An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue" stands as one of the most significant theological polemics of the English Reformation. Written in 1531, this treatise responds directly to Thomas More's…
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Philip Melanchthon · 1531 · Treatise
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession stands as Philip Melanchthon's scholarly defense of Lutheran theology, written in response to the Roman Catholic Confutation that rejected the original Augsburg Confession presented to Emperor…
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Philip Melanchthon · 1531 · Treatise
Melanchthon's Elementa Rhetorices emerged from his role as Praeceptor Germaniae, the teacher of Germany, during the crucial early decades of Lutheran educational reform. Written in 1531 as the Protestant movement sought to…
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Francisco de Osuna · 1531 · Treatise
Francisco de Osuna's Norte de los Estados, published in 1531, represents the culmination of his systematic exploration of Christian spiritual life across different states and conditions. Writing during the height of Spanish…
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Martin Luther · 1531–1546 · Other
For browsers: Luther at supper on God, the devil, marriage, popes and beer, as his students wrote it down. Read a few pages at a time; it is a collection of sayings, not an argument.
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Leo Jud, Huldrych Zwingli and Zürich scholars · 1531 · Scripture
A major Swiss Reformation Bible, produced in Zürich in the circle of reformers gathered around that city's church, the Zürich Bible was one of the important continental aids used by Miles Coverdale…
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Commentary on Romans Commentarii in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos
Philip Melanchthon · 1532 · Commentary
Philip Melanchthon's commentary on Romans emerged from the theological ferment of the early Reformation, written just over a decade after Luther's initial break with Rome. As the principal theologian charged with systematizing…
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Martin Luther · 1532 · Commentary
For readers of the Gospels: Luther preaching through Matthew 5–7 on the Christian in the world, the two kingdoms and daily life. Practical sermons, not lectures.
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Thomas More · 1532 · Treatise
Thomas More's massive Confutation represents the Tudor Catholic establishment's most sustained intellectual response to Protestant challenges. Written in 1532 as Chancellor of England, this treatise directly counters William Tyndale's Answer to Thomas…
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Thomas More · 1533 · Treatise
Thomas More's Apology emerged from the bitter religious controversies that swept England in the early 1530s as Henry VIII pursued his break with Rome. Written in 1533, the same year More resigned…
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Thomas More · 1533 · Treatise
Thomas More's Debellation of Salem and Bizance stands as his final major theological work, written in 1533 during the turbulent final years of his life as Henry VIII's break with Rome accelerated.…
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William Tyndale · 1533 · Treatise
William Tyndale's treatise on the Lord's Supper emerged from the heated sacramental controversies that divided Protestant reformers in the 1520s and early 1530s. Writing from exile in the Low Countries, Tyndale found…
