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.
401–500
1 work
434
Latin
Vincent of Lérins · d. c. 445
How to tell catholic truth from novelty: hold what has been believed everywhere, always, and by everyone — with a careful account of how doctrine may nevertheless grow.
1101–1200
1 work
1149
Latin
Anselm of Havelberg · c. 1100–1158
A record of debates held in Constantinople with a Greek archbishop on the filioque and papal authority, prefaced by an argument that the church legitimately changes over time.
1601–1700
1 work
1688
French
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet · 1627–1704
An argument that Protestantism must be false because it keeps changing, traced through the disagreements of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and their successors.
1801–1900
1 work
1864
English
John Henry Newman · 1801–1890
Provoked by a public charge that he did not regard truth as a virtue, Newman answered with the history of his own religious opinions — the whole slow argument that carried him out of the Church of England and into Rome.
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