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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…
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Works The Works of Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer · 1534–1556 · Other
Thomas Cranmer's collected works span his career as the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, produced during the turbulent decades of England's break from Rome under Henry VIII and the subsequent reigns of…
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Book
Miles Coverdale's translation stands as the first complete English Bible to be printed, emerging from the turbulent religious landscape of Henry VIII's England. Working primarily from Martin Luther's German translation and the…
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Thomas More · 1535 · Treatise
Thomas More wrote this extended meditation on Christ's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane while imprisoned in the Tower of London, awaiting execution for his refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII as head…
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Nicholas Ridley · 1549 · Treatise
Nicholas Ridley's treatise emerged from the theological upheaval of the English Reformation, written during his tenure as Bishop of London under the Protestant regime of Edward VI. As England officially moved away…
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Menno Simons · 1552 · Treatise
A Pathetic Supplication represents Menno Simons' most passionate defense of Anabaptist faith and practice, written in 1552 during intensifying persecution of his communities across the Low Countries and northern Germany. The treatise…
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Nicholas Ridley · 1554–1555 · Other
The "Conferences with Latimer" emerged from the final imprisonment of Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer in Oxford's Bocardo prison during 1554-1555. These theological conversations, recorded by Ridley, took place as the two…
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Menno Simons · 1554 · Treatise
Menno Simons wrote this treatise in 1554 as a defense of Anabaptist faithfulness under persecution, addressing both his own community and their critics. The work emerged from the intense pressures facing Dutch…
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Nicholas Ridley · 1555 · Treatise
Nicholas Ridley wrote this treatise during his imprisonment in the Tower of London, as he awaited execution under Queen Mary I's campaign to restore Catholicism to England. The former Bishop of London,…
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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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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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John Knox · 1587 · Book
John Knox's History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland stands as both historical chronicle and theological manifesto, written by the fiery Scottish reformer who lived through the tumultuous events he describes.…
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Works The Works of Hugh Latimer, Volume 2
Hugh Latimer · 1845 · Book
This second volume of Hugh Latimer's collected works preserves the preaching and writing of one of England's most influential Protestant reformers during the tumultuous middle decades of the sixteenth century. Latimer, who…
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J. C. Ryle · 1890 · Book
J.C. Ryle wrote these biographical sketches in 1890 as popular portraits of five pivotal figures in England's Protestant Reformation: John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer. Writing as…
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Thérèse of Lisieux · 1894–1897 · Other
The Récréations pieuses are eight short plays Thérèse Martin wrote between January 1894 and February 1897 for the enclosed Carmelite community at Lisieux. Carmel permitted extended recreation on major feasts — the…
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René Bazin · 1894 · Book
L'Isolée is a novel by René Bazin, the French Catholic writer of provincial life who was later elected to the Académie française. It belongs to the body of fiction Bazin produced in…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1931 · Treatise
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's second doctoral dissertation, completed at age twenty-five, addresses a fundamental crisis in Protestant theology between two competing understandings of revelation. Writing in the wake of Karl Barth's revolutionary emphasis on…
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Edith Stein · 1950 · Treatise
Edith Stein completed this theological treatise on John of the Cross while living as Sister Teresa Benedicta in the Carmelite convent at Echt, Netherlands, during the darkest years of World War II.…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1984 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity emerged from decades of reflection on her own romantic relationships and the questions that persistently arose from young women seeking her counsel. Writing in 1984 as a…
