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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.

1501–1600

The Sixteenth Century

1 work

1539

Latin

On the Church and the Authority of the Word of God

Philipp Melanchthon · 1497–1560

An argument that the church's authority is ministerial rather than legislative — it announces the word and cannot make new articles of faith.

Lutheran · EcclesiologyRead elsewhere