The Reformation · 1583
The Names of Christ
De los Nombres de Cristo
Luis de León · 1527–1591
What it is
Three friars by a river discuss the names scripture gives Christ — shepherd, mountain, father of the age to come — in prose of great deliberate beauty.
Why it lasted
A monument of Spanish prose, written by a Hebrew scholar of converso descent whom the Inquisition had imprisoned for four years for preferring the Hebrew text.
Where to read it
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