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Martin Bucer · 1529–1532 · Commentary
Martin Bucer's Commentary on the Psalms emerged during the crucial early years of the Protestant Reformation in Strasbourg, where he served as the city's leading reformer. Written between 1529 and 1532, this…
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Thomas More · 1529 · Treatise
Thomas More's A Dialogue Concerning Heresies emerged from the tumultuous religious controversies of the 1520s, when Protestant ideas were spreading rapidly through England and continental Europe. Written in 1529, this substantial treatise…
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Martin Luther · 1529 · Treatise
Luther's 1529 book, written as the Ottoman army advanced on Vienna, on who may fight the Turks and in what spirit.
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Hugh Latimer · 1529 · Sermon
Hugh Latimer's \"Sermon of the Card\" stands as one of the most famous and controversial sermons preached during the English Reformation. Delivered on Christmas Eve 1529 at St. Edward's Church in Cambridge,…
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Thomas More · 1529 · Treatise
Thomas More's "The Supplication of Souls" emerged in 1529 as a direct response to Simon Fish's inflammatory pamphlet "A Supplication for the Beggars," which had attacked the Catholic Church's teachings on purgatory…
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Martin Luther · 1529 · Treatise
For anyone who wants plain Christian teaching: the Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer and sacraments explained for households and pastors. Warm, blunt and readable.
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Martin Luther · 1529 · Treatise
For every reader, and especially new Christians and families: the faith in a few pages of questions and answers, meant to be learned by heart.
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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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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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