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.
1501–1600
3 works
1573–1581
Greek
Jeremias II of Constantinople · 1536–1595
Lutheran theologians send the patriarch a Greek Augsburg Confession; he replies with three long letters accepting some points and rejecting justification by faith alone.
1589
Italian
Il Combattimento Spirituale
Lorenzo Scupoli · c. 1530–1610
Four weapons for the interior struggle — distrust of self, confidence in God, use of the faculties, and prayer — with no visions and no extraordinary states.
1595–1596
Latin
The Ruthenian bishops
Thirty-three conditions on which Orthodox bishops of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth entered communion with Rome while keeping the Byzantine rite and married clergy.
1601–1700
3 works
1629
Latin
Cyril Lucaris · 1572–1638
A confession by a patriarch of Constantinople teaching predestination, justification by faith, and scripture's authority over the church — in Calvinist terms.
1640; approved 1642
Latin
Peter Mogila · 1596–1646
A catechism written to answer Lucaris and to arm Orthodox clergy in Poland-Lithuania against Catholic and Protestant argument, structured like a Western catechism.
1672
Greek
The Synod of Jerusalem
A synodal confession rejecting Lucaris point by point and defining Orthodox teaching on scripture, the sacraments, and the church against Calvinism.
1801–1900
1 work
1880
Russian
Bratya Karamazovy
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1821–1881
A patricide and its aftermath in a provincial Russian town, carrying inside it the century's fiercest indictment of God over the suffering of children and, set against it, a monk who answers with love rather than argument.
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