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Heinrich Bullinger · 1556 · Book
Heinrich Bullinger's Summa christenlicher Religion represents the mature theological synthesis of Zurich's leading Reformed pastor, written in 1556 as a comprehensive exposition of Protestant doctrine for German-speaking Christians. Bullinger, who had succeeded…
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John Calvin · 1557–1563 · Commentary
Calvin's Commentary on the Book of Psalms emerged from his conviction that the Psalter served as the church's premier school of prayer and devotion. Written between 1557 and 1563 during his mature…
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William Whittingham and English exiles in Geneva · 1557 · Scripture
Produced by English Protestant exiles working in the orbit of continental Reformed scholarship, the Geneva New Testament served as the immediate precursor to the complete Geneva Bible and proved influential in English…
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John Knox · 1558 · Treatise
Knox's Appellation emerged from his desperate circumstances as an exile facing condemnation by the Scottish ecclesiastical establishment. Written in 1558 while living in Geneva under Calvin's influence, this treatise serves as Knox's…
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Commentary on Romans In epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos commentarii doctissimi
Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1558 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans emerged from his lectures delivered at the University of Oxford between 1550 and 1552, during his exile from Italy following his conversion…
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Commentary on Romans Most learned and fruitfull commentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermilius upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes
Peter Martyr Vermigli · 1558 · Commentary
Peter Martyr Vermigli's commentary on Romans emerged from his lectures at Oxford University during his brief but influential tenure there from 1548 to 1553. Originally delivered as academic lectures to students and…
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John Knox · 1558 · Treatise
John Knox's incendiary treatise emerged from his exile in Geneva during the reign of Mary Tudor, when England had returned to Catholicism under a female monarch. Writing anonymously and publishing the work…
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John Knox · 1559–1566 · Book
John Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland stands as both historical chronicle and passionate manifesto, written by the fiery Scottish reformer who helped lead his nation's break from Roman Catholicism. Knox…
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John Knox · 1560 · Treatise
John Knox wrote this treatise in 1560 to defend the Protestant Reformation in Scotland against Catholic theological objections. The work emerged during a period of intense religious controversy following the Scottish Parliament's…
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Martin Bucer · 1560 · Treatise
Martin Bucer's Loci Communes represents the systematic theological legacy of one of the most influential yet often overlooked reformers of the sixteenth century. Completed in the final year of his life while…
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Theodore Beza · 1560 · Treatise
Theodore Beza's Confessio Christianae Fidei stands as one of the most personal and intellectually rigorous defenses of Reformed theology produced in the sixteenth century. Written in 1560 during Beza's early years as…
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John Knox · 1560 · Treatise
The First Book of Discipline emerged from the urgent practical needs of the newly Reformed Church of Scotland in 1560. Written primarily by John Knox and five other ministers commissioned by the…
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English Protestant exiles; including William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson · 1560 · Scripture
Produced by English Protestant exiles in Geneva and first published in 1560, this version became the dominant English household Bible before the King James Version and a landmark study Bible. It presents…
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John Knox · 1560 · Treatise
The Scots Confession emerged from the turbulent moment when Scotland formally broke with Rome and established a Reformed church. Written in 1560 by John Knox and five other ministers at the request…
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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
