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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 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

4 works

1531

Latin

On the Errors of the Trinity

Michael Servetus · c. 1511–1553

An argument that the Nicene formula is unscriptural and philosophically confused, and that the church went wrong at the moment it adopted the word substance.

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1553

Latin

The Restoration of Christianity

Christianismi Restitutio

Michael Servetus · c. 1511–1553

A complete alternative theology rejecting the Trinity and infant baptism, containing in passing the first European description of the pulmonary circulation of the blood.

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1574

Polish

The Confession of the Polish Brethren

The Minor Reformed Church of Poland

A catechism of the Polish anti-trinitarians, teaching one God the Father, a fully human Christ, believers' baptism, and refusal of the magistrate's sword.

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1578

Latin

On Jesus Christ the Saviour

Fausto Sozzini · 1539–1604

A denial that Christ's death was a satisfaction for sin, arguing instead that he saves by revealing the way to immortality and by his example and resurrection.

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