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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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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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Miles Coverdale, revising Matthew Bible under Thomas Cromwell's sponsorship · 1539 · Scripture
The Great Bible was the first English Bible officially authorized for public use in churches, and it stands as a landmark in the emergence of an English scriptural tradition sanctioned by the…
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Miles Coverdale · 1539 · Book
The Great Bible represents the first authorized English translation of Scripture, commissioned by Thomas Cromwell and published in 1539 during Henry VIII's reign. Miles Coverdale, who had already produced the first complete…
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Thomas Cranmer · 1547 · Sermon
The First Book of Homilies emerged from the English Reformation's urgent need to provide doctrinally sound preaching in a church where many clergy lacked theological education or remained uncommitted to reformed teaching.…
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Hugh Latimer · 1547–1549 · Sermon
Hugh Latimer's seven sermons preached before the boy king Edward VI between 1547 and 1549 represent some of the most influential pulpit oratory of the English Reformation. Delivered during the early years…
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Catechism Cranmer's Catechism
Thomas Cranmer · 1548 · Treatise
Thomas Cranmer's Catechism emerged in 1548 as the Church of England's first official catechism, written during the tumultuous early years of the English Reformation. As Archbishop of Canterbury under the young Edward…
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Thomas Cranmer · 1549 · Other
Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer emerged from the English Reformation's urgent need to create a vernacular liturgy that would unite a fractured church while establishing theological independence from Rome. As Archbishop…
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Thomas Cranmer · 1550 · Treatise
Thomas Cranmer's "A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament" emerged from one of the most heated theological controversies of the English Reformation. Published in 1550 during the reign…
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Thomas Cranmer · 1551 · Treatise
Thomas Cranmer's "An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation" emerged from the heated theological controversies surrounding the English Reformation's doctrine of the Eucharist. Written in 1551 during Cranmer's tenure as Archbishop…
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Thomas Cranmer · 1552 · Book
Thomas Cranmer's 1552 Book of Common Prayer represents the mature flowering of English liturgical reform, emerging from the theological and political upheavals of the English Reformation. Building upon his 1549 revision, Cranmer…
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Thomas Cranmer · 1553 · Treatise
The Forty-Two Articles represents Thomas Cranmer's final attempt to establish doctrinal clarity for the Church of England during the tumultuous reign of Edward VI. Published in 1553 just months before the young…
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Nicholas Ridley · 1555 · Treatise
Nicholas Ridley wrote this treatise while imprisoned in the Tower of London, facing execution for his Protestant convictions under Queen Mary's Catholic restoration. The former Bishop of Rochester and London composed it…
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John Jewel · 1560–1570 · Sermon
These sermons represent John Jewel's direct engagement with the theological and political upheavals of early Elizabethan England. As Bishop of Salisbury and one of the chief architects of Anglican apologetics, Jewel delivered…
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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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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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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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John Jewel · 1567 · Treatise
John Jewel's Defence emerged from the fierce theological battles of the early Elizabethan settlement, written as a direct response to Thomas Harding's comprehensive attack on Jewel's earlier Apology of the Church of…
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Committee of Church of England bishops under Matthew Parker · 1568 · Scripture
The Bishops' Bible was the Church of England's official answer to the Geneva Bible, produced under episcopal oversight and closely associated with episcopal authority. Covering the complete Bible, it drew on Hebrew,…
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Lancelot Andrewes · 1575–1626 · Other
The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes emerge from the personal prayer life of one of the English church's most learned bishops during the early seventeenth century. Originally composed in Latin, Greek, and…
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John Jewel · 1582 · Treatise
John Jewel's "A View of a Seditious Bull" responds directly to Pope Pius V's papal bull "Regnans in Excelsis" (1570), which excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I and declared her subjects released from their…
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John Jewel · 1583 · Commentary
John Jewel's exposition on Paul's letters to the Thessalonians emerged from the urgent need to establish Reformed biblical interpretation within the newly Protestant Church of England. Writing as Bishop of Salisbury during…
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Richard Hooker · 1586 · Sermon
Richard Hooker preached this sermon at the Temple Church in London in 1586, during a period when English Protestants were wrestling with questions of assurance and perseverance that had emerged from Reformation…
