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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.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

359

Latin

On the Synods

De Synodis

Hilary of Poitiers · c. 310 – c. 367

Written in exile to the bishops of Gaul, setting out every Eastern creed of the previous thirty years in turn and asking, of each, whether it can be read in an orthodox sense. He is unusually willing to grant that men who reject his vocabulary may hold his faith.

Western · LetterJohnPhilippiansColossians1 CorinthiansRead elsewhere

1501–1600

The Sixteenth Century

1 work

25 June 1580

German

The Book of Concord

The Lutheran churches of Germany

The three ancient creeds bound together with the Augsburg Confession, its Apology, the Smalcald Articles, both catechisms, and the Formula of Concord.

Lutheran · ConfessionRead elsewhere