The Library
1277 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.
1701–1800
5 works
1645–1704; definitive 1704 and 1715
Latin
The Holy Office and Pope Clement XI
Rulings forbidding Chinese Christians to take part in rites honouring Confucius and ancestors, and banning the terms the Jesuits had used to translate God.
1705
English
Mary Astell · 1666–1731
A full statement of her own theology and philosophy, arguing that women must think for themselves and that submission in marriage is not owed to a tyrant.
1729
English
William Law · 1686–1761
An argument, carried by a gallery of sharply drawn character sketches, that the reason most Christians never become devout is not weakness but that they never seriously intended to.
1746
English
Jonathan Edwards · 1703–1758
Written after the Great Awakening, when both the enthusiasts and their critics were claiming too much. Edwards sets out twelve signs distinguishing genuinely gracious affections from religious excitement, and refuses to make intensity itself the test.
1777
English
John Wesley · 1703–1791
Wesley assembles thirty years of his own writing to answer his critics on entire sanctification: what he meant by perfection, what he never meant, and why he would not stop preaching it.
5 of 1277 works