The Library
1577 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
2 works
c. 1230–1250
Middle Dutch
Beatrice of Nazareth · c. 1200–1268
Seven ways in which love seizes the soul, from a desire to serve purely, through a love that wounds and maddens, to a longing that cannot rest short of eternity.
c. 1240–1260
Middle Dutch
Hadewijch of Brabant · 13th century
Fourteen visions of overwhelming intensity, in which Love appears as a demanding lady and the seer is drawn into the abyss of the Trinity and sent back unsatisfied.
1301–1400
2 works
c. 1335–1340
Middle Dutch
Die geestelike brulocht
Jan van Ruusbroec · 1293–1381
Three lives — active, interior, and contemplative — built on the cry that the bridegroom comes and we must go out to meet him, ending in a union that does not abolish the distinction between God and the soul.
c. 1340–1350
Middle Dutch
Jan van Ruusbroec · 1293–1381
On the difference between the faithful servant, the secret friend, and the hidden son of God, and on the common life in which contemplation and action are one act.
1501–1600
1 work
1539–1540
Dutch
Menno Simons · c. 1496–1561
A former priest sets out a peaceable Anabaptism after the catastrophe at Münster — believers' baptism, discipleship, non-resistance, and separation from violence.
1601–1700
5 works
1608
Dutch
Jacobus Arminius · 1560–1609
A defence before the States of Holland of his views on predestination, arguing that election is conditional on foreseen faith and that God's grace may be resisted.
1610
Dutch
The followers of Arminius
Five articles submitted to the Dutch government: conditional election, universal atonement, total depravity, resistible grace, and uncertainty about final perseverance.
1618–1619
Latin
The Synod of Dort
An international Reformed synod answers the Remonstrance under five heads — unconditional election, definite atonement, total depravity, irresistible grace, and perseverance.
1625
Latin
De Iure Belli ac Pacis
Hugo Grotius · 1583–1645
A law of nations grounded in a natural law that would hold, he says, even if we granted that there is no God — with rules on just cause, prisoners, and non-combatants.
1627
Latin
Hugo Grotius · 1583–1645
An apologetic written originally in Dutch verse for sailors, arguing the historical credibility of the gospels for readers who would meet Muslims and Jews on their voyages.
10 of 1577 works