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William Perkins · 1590 · Treatise
William Perkins wrote The Foundation of Christian Religion in 1590 as a systematic introduction to Reformed theology for ordinary believers. Working as a preacher at Great St. Andrew's Church in Cambridge during…
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Francisco Suárez · 1590 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez's De Incarnatione stands as one of the most systematic and comprehensive treatments of the doctrine of the Incarnation produced during the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Written in 1590 as part of his…
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Luis de León · 1590 · Treatise
This Latin treatise by the Spanish Augustinian friar and scholar Fray Luis de León examines the theological relationship between the Passover lamb of the Old Testament and Christ's sacrificial death. Written during…
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John Donne · 1590–1617 · Poem
John Donne's Songs and Sonnets represents a revolutionary collection of love poetry written during his youth and early manhood, before his ordination to the Anglican priesthood. Composed primarily between 1590 and 1617,…
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Amandus Polanus · 1590 · Treatise
Amandus Polanus composed his Partitiones Theologicae as a comprehensive systematic theology for the Reformed tradition in the late sixteenth century. Writing from his position as professor at the University of Basel, Polanus…
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John of the Cross · 1591 · Letter
A brief letter of spiritual direction, written by John of the Cross for an unnamed friar who had asked him how to reach perfection. It survives among the short counsels that circulated…
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William Perkins · 1591 · Book
A Golden Chain stands as William Perkins' systematic exposition of Reformed theology, written to provide English Puritans with a comprehensive framework for understanding salvation and Christian living. Originally published in 1591 as…
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Girolamo Zanchi · 1591 · Treatise
Girolamo Zanchi's De Operibus Dei stands as one of the most systematic treatments of divine providence and God's works to emerge from the second generation of Reformed theology. Written during Zanchi's professorship…
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John of the Cross · 1591 · Treatise
The Cautelas — "The Precautions" — is a page or two of practical instruction written by John of the Cross for a community of Discalced Carmelite nuns under his direction. No date…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1591–1622 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz's Loci Theologici stands as the most comprehensive systematic theology of early Lutheranism, written across three decades in response to the theological controversies that erupted after Luther's death in 1546. As…
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William Perkins · 1592 · Treatise
William Perkins wrote this systematic treatment of preaching in 1592 as the Puritan movement within the Church of England was developing its distinctive approach to pulpit ministry. Originally published in Latin as…
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William Perkins · 1592 · Treatise
William Perkins wrote this brief treatise in 1592 to address a pressing pastoral question that emerged from Reformed theology's emphasis on predestination and assurance. As one of England's most influential Puritan theologians,…
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Girolamo Zanchi · 1592 · Treatise
Girolamo Zanchi's comprehensive treatise on the incarnation emerged from the theological ferment of late sixteenth-century Reformed orthodoxy, when Protestant scholastics were systematizing doctrinal positions against both Catholic and radical Protestant challenges. Writing…
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Francisco Suárez · 1592 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez composed this systematic treatise on the mysteries of Christ's life in 1592 as part of his broader theological project to synthesize Thomistic scholasticism with the emerging concerns of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.…
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Papal commission under Clement VIII, following Sixtine edition · 1592 · Scripture
The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is a standardized official Vulgate text that served the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. Produced in the wake of the Council of Trent's call for a dependable authoritative Latin…
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Franciscus Junius · 1593 · Commentary
Franciscus Junius produced this commentary on Ephesians as part of the broader Reformed effort to establish systematic biblical exegesis in the wake of the Reformation. Writing in the late sixteenth century when…
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John Donne · 1593–1596 · Poem
John Donne's Elegies are a collection of twenty erotic poems written during his youth in the 1590s, before his ordination and long before his fame as a preacher. Composed when Donne was…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1593 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz's Enchiridion emerged from the pressing need to provide Lutheran pastors and educated laypeople with a systematic yet accessible guide to Christian doctrine in the decades following the Augsburg Confession. Written…
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Francis de Sales · 1593–1622 · Letter
The letters of Francis de Sales represent nearly three decades of spiritual correspondence from one of the most influential directors of souls in Catholic history. Written between 1593 and 1622, these letters…
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Richard Hooker · 1593–1662 · Treatise
Richard Hooker's monumental treatise emerged from the heated ecclesiastical controversies of Elizabethan England, where Puritan reformers demanded the wholesale replacement of Anglican church government with Presbyterian polity based strictly on biblical precedent.…
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Franciscus Junius · 1593 · Treatise
Franciscus Junius wrote this treatise on the observance of Moses' polity in 1593, during a period when Reformed theologians were grappling with fundamental questions about the relationship between biblical law and civil…
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John Donne · 1593–1598 · Poem
John Donne's five verse satires, composed between 1593 and 1598 during his years as a young law student at Lincoln's Inn, emerged from the ribald intellectual culture of Elizabethan London's legal community.…
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Lancelot Andrewes · 1593–1625 · Sermon
These sermons emerge from Lancelot Andrewes's tenure as one of England's most accomplished preachers during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Preached primarily at Whitehall before the royal court on…
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Amandus Polanus · 1594 · Commentary
Amandus Polanus produced this systematic commentary on Romans in 1594 during his tenure as professor of Old Testament at the University of Basel. The work emerged from his lecture courses and represents…
