Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation, Volume 1: 1523-1552

Description

This is the first of a four volume set, which compiles numerous Reformed confessions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries translated into English. For many of these texts, this is their debut in the Anglo-Saxon vernacular. It provides the English-speaking world a richer and more comprehensive view of the emergence and maturation of Reformed theology in these foundational centuries foundational centuries for Reformed thought and foundational summaries of Reformed doctrine for these centuries.

Each confessional statement is preceded by a brief introduction containing necessary historical and bibliographical background. The confessions are arranged chronologically, with this first volume presenting thirty-three documents covering the years 1523-1552.

Table of Contents: 

1. Huldrych Zwingli, Sixty-Seven Articles (1523)
2. Huldrych Zwingli, Short and Christian Instruction (1523)
3. The Ten Theses of Bern (1528)
4. The Confession of the East Friesland Preachers (1528)
5. William Farel, Summary (1529)
6. Huldrych Zwingli, Fidei ratio (1530)
7. The Tetrapolitan Confession (1530)
8. Confession of Vaudois (1530 or 1531)
9. Huldrych Zwingli, Exposition of Christian Faith (1531)
10. Articles of the Bern Synod (1532)
11. The Synod of Chanforan (1532)
12. The Confession of Angrogna (1532)
13. The (First) Basel Confession (1534)
14. The Bohemian Confession (1535)
15. The Lausanne Articles (1536)
16. The First Helvetic Confession (Second Basel Confession) (1536)
17. John Calvin, Catechism (1537)
18. John Calvin, Geneva Confession of Faith (1536/37)
19. John Calvin, Catechism (1538)
20. Waldensian Confession of Merindol (1541)
21. The Confession of the Waldensians of Provence (1543)
22. The Confession of the Vaudois of Merindol (1543)
23. Walloon Confession of Wessel (1544/45)
24. John Calvin, Catechism (1545)
25. Juan Diaz, Suma de la Relijion Cristiana (1546)
26. Juan Valdes, Catechism (1549)
27. Consensus Tigurinus (1549)
28. Thomas Cranmer, Anglican Catechism (1549)
29. The London Confession od John a Lasco (1551)
30. The Large Emden Catechism; or Catechism of the Immigrant Church in London (1551)
31. The Confession of the Glastonbury Congregation (1551)
32. Confessio Rhaetiae (1552)
33. John Calvin, Consensus Genevensis (1552) 

Author  

James T. Dennison is Academic Dean of Northwest Theological Seminary in Washington, where he also serves as Professor of Church History and Biblical Theology. He is the author of The Market Day of the Soul, editor of Kerux: The Journal of Northwest Theological Seminary, and has also edited various books including Francis Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Geerhardus Vos’s Old Testament Eschatology, and The Letters of Geerhardus Vos.