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Thomas More · 1532 · Treatise
Thomas More's massive Confutation represents the Tudor Catholic establishment's most sustained intellectual response to Protestant challenges. Written in 1532 as Chancellor of England, this treatise directly counters William Tyndale's Answer to Thomas…
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Thomas More · 1533 · Treatise
Thomas More's Apology emerged from the bitter religious controversies that swept England in the early 1530s as Henry VIII pursued his break with Rome. Written in 1533, the same year More resigned…
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Thomas More · 1533 · Treatise
Thomas More's Debellation of Salem and Bizance stands as his final major theological work, written in 1533 during the turbulent final years of his life as Henry VIII's break with Rome accelerated.…
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William Tyndale · 1533 · Treatise
William Tyndale's treatise on the Lord's Supper emerged from the heated sacramental controversies that divided Protestant reformers in the 1520s and early 1530s. Writing from exile in the Low Countries, Tyndale found…
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Thomas More · 1534–1535 · Treatise
Thomas More composed this treatise during his final imprisonment in the Tower of London between 1534 and 1535, as he awaited execution for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII's supremacy over the English…
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Heinrich Bullinger · 1534 · Treatise
Heinrich Bullinger's treatise on God's single and eternal testament emerged from the heated theological debates of the 1530s, particularly disputes over the relationship between the Old and New Testaments that divided Reformed…
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Works The Works of Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer · 1534–1556 · Other
Thomas Cranmer's collected works span his career as the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, produced during the turbulent decades of England's break from Rome under Henry VIII and the subsequent reigns of…
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Johannes Brenz · 1535 · Treatise
Johannes Brenz's Catechismus für die Jugend emerged from the urgent need to establish systematic religious instruction in the Lutheran territories of Württemberg during the 1530s. As one of the leading reformers in…
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Martin Luther · 1535 · Commentary
Luther's 1535 Commentary on Galatians represents the mature theological reflection of the reformer on the epistle he considered the heart of the gospel. This work emerged from Luther's lectures at the University…
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Coverdale Bible Biblia: the Bible, that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe
Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Book
Miles Coverdale's Biblia stands as the first complete Bible printed in English, emerging from the charged atmosphere of early Protestant Reformation in England. Working under the protection of Thomas Cromwell and with…
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Scripture
The Coverdale Bible, the work of Miles Coverdale and printed in 1535, was the first complete printed Bible in English. Its scope is the whole Bible, but it was not drawn from…
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Book
Miles Coverdale's translation stands as the first complete English Bible to be printed, emerging from the turbulent religious landscape of Henry VIII's England. Working primarily from Martin Luther's German translation and the…
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Pierre Robert Olivétan · 1535 · Scripture
The Olivétan Bible was the first major French Protestant Bible to be translated substantially from the original languages. A complete Protestant Bible rendered from Hebrew and Greek, it took Hebrew and Greek…
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Sermons Sermons by Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer · 1535–1555 · Sermon
Hugh Latimer's sermons emerged from the turbulent decades of the English Reformation, when the newly established Church of England desperately needed preachers who could articulate Protestant doctrine in language ordinary people could…
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Thomas More · 1535 · Treatise
Thomas More wrote this extended meditation on Christ's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane while imprisoned in the Tower of London, awaiting execution for his refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII as head…
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Commentary on Romans Metaphrasis et enarratio in Epistolam D. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos
Martin Bucer · 1536 · Commentary
Martin Bucer's massive commentary on Romans emerged from his position as the leading reformer in Strasbourg during the 1530s, when Protestant theology was still crystallizing its distinctive approaches to Scripture and salvation.…
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John Calvin · 1536–1559 · Treatise
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion stands as the most comprehensive and influential work of Reformed systematic theology. First published in 1536 as a brief manual for Protestant believers facing persecution in…
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Heinrich Bullinger · 1537–1549 · Commentary
Heinrich Bullinger's comprehensive commentary on all the apostolic epistles represents one of the most systematic treatments of New Testament letters to emerge from the Reformed tradition in the sixteenth century. Written during…
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John Rogers ('Thomas Matthew'), using Tyndale and Coverdale · 1537 · Scripture
The Matthew Bible, published in 1537 and generally attributed to John Rogers under the name "Thomas Matthew," was the first complete English Bible to draw on Tyndale's translations on a large scale…
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Menno Simons · 1537 · Treatise
Written in 1537, just two years after Menno Simons left the Catholic priesthood to join the Anabaptist movement, this devotional treatise represents one of his earliest attempts to articulate a distinctly Anabaptist…
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Menno Simons · 1537 · Treatise
Written in 1537 during the tumultuous early years of the Radical Reformation, Menno Simons' treatise on the new birth emerged from his pastoral concern for Anabaptist communities facing persecution and theological attack.…
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Heinrich Bullinger · 1538 · Treatise
Heinrich Bullinger's treatise on the authority of Scripture emerged from the theological upheavals of the early Reformation, when questions about religious authority had fractured Western Christianity. Writing in Zurich as Huldrych Zwingli's…
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Menno Simons · 1539 · Treatise
Menno Simons wrote this treatise in 1539 as a systematic defense of adult baptism against both Catholic sacramentalism and Lutheran infant baptism practices. Having left the Catholic priesthood to join the Anabaptist…
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John Calvin · 1539 · Commentary
Calvin's commentary on Romans emerged from his early years as a reformer in Geneva, when he was establishing both his theological method and his reputation as a biblical interpreter. Published in 1540…
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