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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.

1501–1600

The Sixteenth Century

1 work

1550–1551

Latin

In Defence of the Indians

Bartolomé de las Casas · 1484–1566

The argument delivered at Valladolid against Sepúlveda: the peoples of the Americas are rational, their societies ordered, and no one may be made Christian by force.

Dominican · ApologiaRead elsewhere