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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1201–1300

The Thirteenth Century

1 work

c. 1252–1256

Latin

On Being and Essence

De Ente et Essentia

Thomas Aquinas · 1225–1274

An early short work distinguishing what a thing is from the fact that it is, and arguing that only in God are essence and existence the same.

Scholastic · PhilosophyRead elsewhere