Reformation and Renaissance Philosophy and Theology II

This stage of the Lyceum Track unfolds in the age of reform and reason—when theology, politics, and philosophy struggled to define the soul of the Reformation world. From Tyndale and More’s fierce debates on conscience to Descartes and Bacon’s reimagining of knowledge itself, these works capture a civilization at the crossroads of revelation and rationality. The unity of faith and intellect, tested by controversy and inquiry, becomes the crucible in which the pre-modern mind is forged.

Author and Dates:

• William Tyndale – An Answer to Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue – 1531 AD

• Thomas More – A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation – 1534 AD

• Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer – 1532–1533 AD

• Thomas Cranmer – The Book of Common Prayer – 1549 AD

• John Jewel – Apology for the Church of England – 1562 AD

• John Knox – Theological Works (Selections) – mid-16th century AD

• Council of Trent – Decrees and Canons – 1545–1563 AD

• Cardinal Cajetan (Tommaso de Vio) – On Justification (De Iustificatione) – mid-16th century AD

• Richard Hooker – A Learned Discourse on Justification – ca. 1585 AD

• Richard Hooker – Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity – 1594–1597 AD

• Jacobus Arminius – Theological Works (Selections) – ca. 1600 AD

• John Owen – Introduction to the Mortification of Sin – 1656 AD

• John Owen – The Death of Death in the Death of Christ – 1647 AD

• Michel de Montaigne – Essays (Selections) – 1580 AD

• Francis Turretin – Theological Selections (Institutio Theologiae Elencticae) – 1679–1685 AD

• Francis Bacon – Novum Organum – 1620 AD

• René Descartes – Discourse on Method – 1637 AD

• René Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy – 1641 AD