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Martin Luther · 1525 · Book
For serious readers: Luther's reply to Erasmus on whether the will is free before God, the book he called his best. Hard, combative and long; read the Freedom of a Christian first.
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Huldrych Zwingli · 1525 · Treatise
Zwingli's Commentary on True and False Religion emerged in 1525 as a comprehensive defense of Reformed theology against both Catholic doctrine and emerging Anabaptist positions. Written during the height of the Swiss…
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William Tyndale · 1525–1535 · Book
William Tyndale's English New Testament emerged from his conviction that ordinary Christians should read Scripture in their native tongue rather than depend on clerical interpretation of the Latin Vulgate. Working in exile…
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Huldrych Zwingli · 1525 · Treatise
Zwingli's "On Baptism" emerged from the heated sacramental controversies that fractured the early Reformed movement in Zurich. Written in 1525 as the Anabaptist movement gained momentum, this treatise responded directly to the…
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William Tyndale · 1525 · Treatise
William Tyndale's "A Pathway into the Holy Scripture" stands as one of the earliest English treatises on biblical interpretation, written in 1525 as a preface to his translation of the New Testament.…
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William Tyndale · 1525 · Scripture
William Tyndale's translation stands as a foundational source for the later English Bible, and much of his wording survives in the King James Version and beyond. In scope it comprises the complete…
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Huldrych Zwingli · 1526 · Treatise
Zwingli's treatise on the Lord's Supper emerged from the heated sacramental controversies that divided the Protestant Reformation in the 1520s. Written in 1526, this work represents the Zurich reformer's mature position against…
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Martin Luther · 1526 · Treatise
Luther's 1526 order of worship in German, with music for the readings and his remarks on three kinds of service.
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Desiderius Erasmus · 1526–1527 · Treatise
Hyperaspistes is Erasmus's comprehensive defense of his theological positions against Martin Luther's fierce attack in De Servo Arbitrio. Written in two parts between 1526 and 1527, this treatise emerged from the bitter…
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Martin Luther · 1526 · Treatise
Luther's 1526 answer to a knight's question whether a soldier's calling can be a Christian one, and when war is just.
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Martin Bucer · 1527–1530 · Commentary
Martin Bucer's Enarrationes in Evangelia represents one of the earliest sustained attempts at Reformed gospel commentary, written during his formative years as Strasbourg's leading reformer between 1527 and 1530. Bucer undertook this…
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Martin Bucer · 1527 · Commentary
Martin Bucer's Commentary on Ephesians emerged from his work as a leading reformer in Strasbourg, where he served as the city's chief pastor and theological guide. Written in 1527 during the crucial…
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William Tyndale · 1527–1531 · Book
This collection gathers William Tyndale's theological writings produced during his years of exile on the continent, when he was simultaneously translating the New Testament into English and defending the principles that guided…
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Huldrych Zwingli · 1527 · Treatise
Huldrych Zwingli penned this treatise in 1527 as a response to critics who challenged his interpretation of the Eucharist, particularly targeting those who accused him of departing from orthodox Christian teaching. Written…
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Martin Luther · 1527 · Treatise
Luther's 1527 defence of Christ's real presence in the Supper against Zwingli and Oecolampadius.
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Francisco de Osuna · 1527 · Treatise
Francisco de Osuna's Third Spiritual Alphabet stands as one of the most influential guides to contemplative prayer in sixteenth-century Spain. Written in 1527 for those seeking to advance beyond vocal prayer and…
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Martin Luther · 1527 · Letter
Luther's 1527 open letter, written as plague reached Wittenberg, on who may leave and who must stay to care for the sick.
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Martin Luther · 1528 · Treatise
Luther's 1528 book on the Lord's Supper against Zwingli, ending with a confession of his whole faith 'which I will take before the judgment seat of Christ'.
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Francisco de Osuna · 1528 · Treatise
Francisco de Osuna's Primer Abecedario Espiritual is a systematic guide to contemplative prayer written for the emerging spiritual needs of sixteenth-century Spain. Published in 1528, it appeared during a period of intense…
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Santes Pagninus · 1528 · Scripture
Among the earliest complete Latin Bibles of the Renaissance to be rendered directly from Hebrew and Greek rather than merely revising the Vulgate, the Pagninus Bible belongs to the humanist movement to…
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William Tyndale · 1528 · Book
William Tyndale's treatise emerged from the urgent need to defend Protestant principles against accusations that evangelical teaching bred civil disobedience and political rebellion. Writing in 1528 while in exile, Tyndale faced charges…
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William Tyndale · 1528 · Treatise
William Tyndale's treatise emerges from the heated theological controversies of the early English Reformation, written while he lived in exile on the continent. Published in 1528, this work addresses the fundamental Protestant…
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Martin Luther · 1528 · Other
The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars is not Luther's own composition but an anonymous pamphlet, the Liber Vagatorum, which had circulated in southern Germany since the first decade of the sixteenth century…
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Desiderius Erasmus · 1528 · Treatise
Erasmus wrote this satirical dialogue in response to a literary movement that had grown obsessive in its devotion to classical Latin style. Renaissance humanists, particularly in Italy, had developed an extreme form…
