Repeatedly listed as one of the greatest works of literature in Western history, Augustine's Confessions is not only the first Western autobiography, it is one of the foundational writings of the church fathers. Speaking from the soul, Augustine reflects on his early childhood through his conversion, demonstrating to his Christian readers how God's hand had ...
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While imprisoned and under torture, St. John of the Cross wrote his poem, “Dark Night of the Soul” (1586), one of the most gothic and passionate treatises in Christian history. Exploring the journey of the soul through hardships and trials to union with God, St. John of the Cross attempted to put in writing the ...
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G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy (1908) is considered one of the great modern classics of modern Christian literature. Not meant to be so much a formal treatise as much as a personal confession (he writes in his preface that his purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not whether the Christian faith can be believed, but how he ...
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In the wake of the Lutheran Reformation, The Roman Church demanded that Christians worship one way, while other Christian groups demanded that there ought to be no order in worship. Martin Luther's "The German Mass and Order of Divine Service" (1526) is the Reformer's middle road between legalism on the one hand and anarchy on ...
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The original title of this text is “Confitendi Ratio”, taken from the Holmen edition of Works of Martin Luther. This edition also includes an introduction from Henry Eyster Jacobs and end notes that match a forthcoming bibliography. Jacobs begins his introduction: The Confitendi Ratio is the culmination of a series of tracts published by Luther after the ...
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While Luther was touring the churches of Saxony from 1527-1528, he published for the edification and guidance of these churches a series of collections of sermons. Sermons that were intended to be read in the home as devotionals for the household were called Luther's House-Postils (or house sermons). Since then, these collections have become treasured devotionals ...
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Gerhard's 1606 Meditationes Sacre (Sacred Meditations) is considered a Christian devotional classic, an un-apologetic Biblical meditation on sin, death, redemption, and Christian living. Titles of his devotions include, "The Benefits of True Repentance," "The Certainty of our Salvation," "True Faith," "General Rules for Godly Living," "Self-Denial," "The Beatific Vision of God in Heaven," "The Transitoriness ...
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The full title of this text is “Treatise on the Holy Sacrament of Baptism”, taken from the Holmen edition of Works of Martin Luther. This edition also includes an introduction from C.M. Jacobs and end notes that match a forthcoming bibliography. Jacobs writes in his introduction to this essay, Published in November, 1519, and shortly afterward in ...
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The full title of this text is "A Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences", more popularly called the Ninety-Five Theses. In this edition also appears three explanatory letters written by Martin Luther: one to the Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz, one to John Staupitz, and the last to Pope Leo ...
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One of my hobbies has turned into finding important theological works in the public domain that have largely been forgotten, reformatting the text for MS Word and pdf in a far-more readable and useful format, and then providing them here on IntoTheWoods.org for free. Works that we've done this to have included C.F.W. Walther's ...
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