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Works The Works of John Jewel
John Jewel · 1560–1609 · Other
The Works of John Jewel represent the intellectual foundation of Elizabethan Anglicanism, emerging from the turbulent religious upheavals of sixteenth-century England. As Bishop of Salisbury from 1560 until his death in 1571,…
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Works The Works of John Knox
John Knox · 1560–1572 · Other
The collected works of John Knox represent the literary output of Scotland's foremost Reformer during the turbulent decades when Protestant faith took root in his homeland. Writing between 1560 and his death…
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Luis de León · 1561–1591 · Commentary
Luis de León's Commentaria in Sacram Scripturam represents the mature biblical scholarship of one of sixteenth-century Spain's most distinguished theologian-poets. Composed during his tenure as professor of theology at the University of…
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Commentary on Judges In librum Iudicum commentarii doctissimi
Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1561 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's learned commentary on the book of Judges emerged from his years of biblical teaching at Oxford and Strasbourg, representing one of the most sophisticated Reformed treatments of this challenging…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1561 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz wrote this comprehensive treatise on the Lord's Supper in 1561, during the heated sacramental controversies that fractured the Protestant Reformation. As one of the leading Lutheran theologians of the second…
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Johannes Brenz · 1561 · Treatise
Johannes Brenz's treatise on the personal union of the two natures in Christ emerged from the heated christological controversies that divided German Lutheranism in the mid-sixteenth century. As a leading theologian in…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1561–1582 · Letter
Between 1561 and her death in 1582, Teresa of Ávila wrote constantly to nuns, priors, confessors, patrons, royal officials, and her own family as she founded and defended a network of reformed…
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Absolute Predestination De Praedestinatione Sanctorum Tractatio Absoluta
Girolamo Zanchi · 1562 · Treatise
Girolamo Zanchi's treatise on absolute predestination emerged from the theological controversies that erupted in the Reformed churches during the mid-sixteenth century. Writing in 1562 as professor of theology at Strasbourg, Zanchi found…
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John Jewel · 1562 · Treatise
John Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae stands as the first systematic defense of the Church of England's break from Rome and its theological distinctives. Written in 1562, just four years after Elizabeth I's…
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John Jewel · 1562 · Treatise
John Jewel's Apology of the Church of England stands as the first systematic defense of the Elizabethan religious settlement and the emerging Anglican church. Written in Latin in 1562, just four years…
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1562–1576 · Treatise
The Explicationes Catecheticae represents Zacharias Ursinus's systematic theological exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism, developed through his lectures at the University of Heidelberg during the 1560s and 1570s. As one of the primary…
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Teresa of Ávila · 1562–1565 · Book
Teresa of Ávila wrote this spiritual autobiography between 1562 and 1565 at the request of her confessors, who wanted a detailed account of her interior life and mystical experiences. Originally titled "The…
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John Foxe · 1563–1583 · Book
John Foxe's monumental martyrology emerged from the religious upheavals of sixteenth-century England, as Protestant reformers sought to establish their legitimacy against Roman Catholic claims to apostolic succession. Writing during the reign of…
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John Foxe · 1563 · Book
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, universally known as the Book of Martyrs, emerged from the religious upheavals of sixteenth-century England as both historical chronicle and Protestant propaganda. First published in Latin in…
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Polish Calvinist scholars · 1563 · Scripture
The Brest Bible was the first major Protestant Polish Bible to be translated from the original languages, and it remains a landmark in the history of vernacular Scripture in Poland. Published in…
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Council of Trent · 1563 · Other
The Decree on the Sacrament of Marriage emerged from the Council of Trent's twenty-fourth session in November 1563, representing the Catholic Church's definitive response to Protestant challenges regarding marriage and clerical celibacy.…
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Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1564 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's learned commentary on First Samuel emerged from his lectures at the University of Strasbourg in the 1550s, where he served as professor of Hebrew and Old Testament after his…
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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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Theodore Beza · 1564 · Other
Theodore Beza's Vita Calvini stands as the foundational biography of John Calvin, written immediately following the Genevan reformer's death in 1564. As Calvin's chosen successor and closest collaborator during his final years,…
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Johannes Brenz · 1564 · Treatise
Johannes Brenz's "Questiones de religione inter Protestantes controversae" emerged from the intensifying theological disputes among Protestant reformers in the mid-sixteenth century. Written in 1564, near the end of Brenz's life as a…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1565–1573 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz's Examination of the Council of Trent stands as the most comprehensive and systematic Lutheran response to the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. Written across eight years following Trent's conclusion in 1563, this…
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Martin Chemnitz · 1565–1573 · Treatise
Martin Chemnitz's Examination of the Council of Trent stands as the most comprehensive Lutheran response to the Catholic Counter-Reformation's defining doctrinal statements. Written between 1565 and 1573, this systematic treatise emerged as…
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John Jewel · 1565 · Treatise
John Jewel's Reply unto M. Harding's Answer represents the second volley in one of the most significant theological exchanges of the early Elizabethan settlement. When Thomas Harding, Jewel's former colleague at Oxford…
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Theodore Beza · 1565 · Commentary
Theodore Beza's Novum Testamentum represents one of the most significant New Testament editions of the sixteenth century, produced by Calvin's successor in Geneva during the height of Reformed biblical scholarship. Following his…
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