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John of the Cross · 1582 · Poem
"Un pastorcico solo está penado" is a five-stanza poem by John of the Cross, the Spanish Carmelite friar and reformer (1542–1591) whose verse and prose commentaries became the foundational texts of the…
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English College scholars; NT chiefly Gregory Martin, revised by William Allen and others · 1582 · Scripture
The Douay-Rheims Bible was the first complete English Catholic Bible and served as the principal Catholic counterpart to the Protestant English versions circulating in the same period. Produced by English Catholic exiles…
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John of the Cross · 1582–1585 · Treatise
The Living Flame of Love represents John of the Cross's final and most mature exploration of mystical union with God, written between 1582 and 1585 as a commentary on his own four-stanza…
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John Jewel · 1582 · Treatise
John Jewel's "A View of a Seditious Bull" responds directly to Pope Pius V's papal bull "Regnans in Excelsis" (1570), which excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I and declared her subjects released from their…
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John Jewel · 1583 · Commentary
John Jewel's exposition on Paul's letters to the Thessalonians emerged from the urgent need to establish Reformed biblical interpretation within the newly Protestant Church of England. Writing as Bishop of Salisbury during…
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Luis de León · 1583–1585 · Treatise
Luis de León's The Names of Christ emerged from the theological ferment of sixteenth-century Spain, written during and after the author's imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition from 1572 to 1576. De León,…
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Luis de León · 1583–1585 · Treatise
Written during Luis de León's imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition from 1572 to 1576, this treatise emerged from the Augustinian friar's profound meditation on the person and nature of Christ while confined…
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Luis de León · 1583 · Treatise
La perfecta casada is a moral treatise on Christian marriage written by the Spanish Augustinian friar Luis de León in 1583. Composed during the height of the Counter-Reformation, the work emerged from…
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1584 · Treatise
Zacharias Ursinus composed this comprehensive systematic theology as the culmination of his career as professor of dogmatics at Heidelberg University. Published in 1584, the work emerged from decades of classroom lectures and…
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1584 · Commentary
Zacharias Ursinus wrote this detailed commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism in response to persistent requests from students and pastors who had witnessed his classroom lectures on the catechism at the theological school…
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John of the Cross · 1584–1591 · Other
Grados de perfección — "Degrees of Perfection" — is a very short piece of practical direction by John of the Cross, belonging to the cluster of brief counsels he wrote for individual…
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John of the Cross · 1584–1591 · Other
The Dichos de luz y amor — the Sayings of Light and Love — is a collection of brief spiritual maxims by John of the Cross, the Spanish Carmelite friar who, with…
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Girolamo Zanchi · 1585 · Treatise
Girolamo Zanchi's De Religione Christiana Fides represents one of the most comprehensive systematic theologies produced by the second generation of Reformed theologians. Written during Zanchi's tenure at the Neustadt Academy in the…
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Caspar Olevianus · 1585 · Treatise
This treatise on the substance of God's gracious covenant with the elect emerged from Caspar Olevianus's role as a leading Reformed theologian in the Palatinate during the late sixteenth century. Writing in…
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John of the Cross · 1585 · Poem
Four stanzas of six lines, alternating seven- and eleven-syllable measures, addressed directly to the Holy Spirit as a living flame: this is the shortest of John of the Cross's major poems and…
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Robert Bellarmine · 1586–1593 · Treatise
The Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith represents the most comprehensive Catholic response to Protestant theology produced in the sixteenth century. Written by the Jesuit cardinal Robert Bellarmine between 1586…
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Richard Hooker · 1586 · Sermon
Richard Hooker preached this sermon at the Temple Church in London in 1586, during a period when English Protestants were wrestling with questions of assurance and perseverance that had emerged from Reformation…
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Richard Hooker · 1586 · Sermon
Richard Hooker delivered this sermon at Paul's Cross in London during the religiously turbulent 1580s, when England's Protestant settlement faced challenges from both Puritan reformers demanding further changes and Catholic recusants questioning…
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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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William Morgan; building on William Salesbury's NT · 1588 · Scripture
The William Morgan Bible was the first complete Bible in the Welsh language, and it proved crucial to the standardization and preservation of Welsh. Published in 1588, it offered a complete Bible…
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Franciscus Junius · 1588 · Treatise
Franciscus Junius composed this three-book treatise on biblical hermeneutics in 1588, addressing the urgent need for systematic principles of scriptural interpretation within the Reformed tradition. Writing in the aftermath of the Reformation's…
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Johannes Piscator · 1589 · Treatise
Johannes Piscator's Aphorismi doctrinae Christianae emerged from the pedagogical needs of Reformed theological education in the late sixteenth century. As a professor at the University of Herborn, Piscator recognized the necessity of…
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Francisco Suárez · 1590–1603 · Commentary
Francisco Suárez's Commentary and Disputations on the Third Part of Saint Thomas emerged from his teaching responsibilities at the universities of Alcalá and Coimbra during the late sixteenth century. Published across multiple…
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John Donne · 1590–1631 · Book
John Donne's poetry and prose emerged from the religious and intellectual ferment of late Renaissance England, spanning his transformation from ambitious courtier and rake to Anglican priest and dean of St. Paul's…
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