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King James Version King James Version / Authorized Version
Six companies of roughly 47 scholars · 1611 · Scripture
Commissioned in the reign of James I and first printed in 1611, the King James Version — also known as the Authorized Version — is widely regarded as the most influential English…
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Jacobus Arminius · 1612 · Treatise
The Examen Modestum Libelli emerged from the heated theological controversies that engulfed the Dutch Reformed Church in the early seventeenth century. Jacobus Arminius composed this treatise as a careful response to a…
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Joseph Hall · 1612 · Commentary
Joseph Hall's Contemplations represents one of the earliest and most influential works of devotional biblical commentary in the English Reformed tradition. Writing as Bishop of Exeter during the flowering of Anglican theological…
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Francisco Suárez · 1612–1621 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez composed this monumental treatise on law and divine legislation during the early seventeenth century, when European Christendom faced unprecedented questions about political authority, natural law, and the relationship between temporal…
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Lewis Bayly · 1612 · Book
Lewis Bayly's "The Practice of Piety" emerged from the author's pastoral concerns as Bishop of Bangor in early seventeenth-century Wales. Written for ordinary Christians seeking practical guidance in devotional life, this manual…
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Johann Arndt · 1612 · Book
Johann Arndt's Paradies-Gärtlein (Little Garden of Paradise) emerged in 1612 as a companion to his influential True Christianity, offering Lutheran believers a collection of prayers and meditations designed for daily devotional practice.…
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Zacharias Ursinus · 1612–1644 · Other
The Opera Theologica represents the collected theological writings of Zacharias Ursinus, the principal author of the Heidelberg Catechism and one of the most influential Reformed theologians of the sixteenth century. Published posthumously…
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Johannes Piscator · 1613 · Commentary
Johannes Piscator's comprehensive commentary on the entire New Testament emerged from his decades of teaching at the University of Herborn, where he served as professor of theology from 1584 until his death…
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Francisco Suárez · 1613 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez's Defensio Fidei Catholicae stands as one of the most sophisticated defenses of papal authority and Catholic political theology produced during the Counter-Reformation. Written in 1613, this treatise emerged in direct…
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Robert Bellarmine · 1613 · Book
Robert Bellarmine's De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis stands as one of the most significant biographical dictionaries of Christian writers produced during the Counter-Reformation. Published in 1613, this comprehensive work emerged from Bellarmine's decades of…
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Hugo Grotius · 1613 · Treatise
Hugo Grotius wrote this treatise in 1613 to defend the religious policies of the States of Holland and West Frisia against charges of heterodoxy and political overreach. The work emerged during the…
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Richard Hooker · 1613 · Sermon
These two sermons on Jude's epistle represent Richard Hooker's pulpit ministry during his time as Master of the Temple in London, delivered to the lawyers and students of the Inns of Court…
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Robert Bellarmine · 1615 · Treatise
Robert Bellarmine's "De Ascensione Mentis in Deum" (The Mind's Ascent to God) stands as a devotional treatise written by the great Jesuit theologian in 1615, near the end of his distinguished career…
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Francis de Sales · 1616 · Treatise
Francis de Sales wrote his Treatise on the Love of God in 1616 as the culmination of his mature spiritual theology, building upon the practical guidance he had offered in his earlier…
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Robert Bellarmine · 1617 · Treatise
De Gemitu Columbae (The Sighs of the Dove) stands as Robert Bellarmine's mature reflection on the soul's longing for God, written in 1617 during the final years of his life. The great…
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Hugo Grotius · 1617 · Treatise
Grotius wrote this theological treatise in 1617 as a direct response to the Socinian denial of Christ's substitutionary atonement. Faustus Socinus and his followers had argued that Christ's death was merely exemplary…
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William Ames · 1618 · Treatise
William Ames wrote this brief but pointed theological treatise in 1618 as a direct response to the Remonstrant controversy that was then dividing the Dutch Reformed Church. The work emerged from Ames's…
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William Ames · 1618 · Treatise
Written in the aftermath of the Synod of Dort, this treatise by William Ames serves as both a theological capstone and a polemical defense of Reformed orthodoxy against Arminian challenges. The Synod…
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Joseph Hall · 1618 · Treatise
Joseph Hall's treatise emerged from the pressing economic questions of early seventeenth-century England, where rapid commercial expansion and new forms of wealth creation challenged traditional Christian understandings of money and trade. Writing…
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Francisco Suárez · 1619 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez's De Gratia stands as one of the most comprehensive and influential treatises on divine grace produced during the post-Tridentine period. Writing in the early seventeenth century amid ongoing theological controversies…
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Francisco Suárez · 1620 · Treatise
Francisco Suárez's De Angelis stands as the most comprehensive and systematic treatment of angelology produced during the golden age of scholastic theology. Written in 1620 as part of his larger theological project,…
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John Preston · 1620–1630 · Treatise
John Preston's "The Saints Qualification" emerged from his preaching ministry at Cambridge University and Lincoln's Inn during the 1620s, when English Puritanism faced mounting pressure from Archbishop Laud's ecclesiastical reforms. As one…
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George Herbert · 1620 · Poem
Musae Responsoriae stands as George Herbert's spirited Latin verse defense of Anglican liturgical practice against Puritan criticism. Written in 1620 while Herbert was Public Orator at Cambridge University, this collection of forty-one…
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Robert Bellarmine · 1620 · Treatise
Robert Bellarmine's "De Arte Bene Moriendi" (The Art of Dying Well) stands as one of the finest expressions of Counter-Reformation spirituality applied to the universal human experience of death. Written in 1620,…
