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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.

1201–1300

The Thirteenth Century

1 work

c. 1271

Latin

On the Eternity of the World

Siger of Brabant · c. 1240–c. 1284

An argument that on Aristotelian principles the world must be eternal, whatever faith holds — the philosopher reasoning as a philosopher and stopping there.

Scholastic · PhilosophyRead elsewhere