Post-Reformation Digital Library  

The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select bibliography of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included. Hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.

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Executive Board: 

• David Sytsma (moderator)
  Ph.D. candidate
  Princeton Theological Seminary
• Todd Rester
  Ph.D. candidate 
  Calvin Theological Seminary
• Jordan Ballor
  Dr. theol. candidate
  University of Zurich
• Albert Gootjes
  Ph.D. candidate
  Calvin Theological Seminary
• Richard Muller
  P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology
  Calvin Theological Seminary
• Lugene Schemper (ex officio)
  Theological Librarian
  Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary

Editorial Advisory Board:

• Ken Appold, Princeton Theological Seminary
• Willem van Asselt, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), IPRF-ETF-Leuven (Belgium)
• Irena Backus, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
• Andreas J. Beck, IPRF, Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven (Belgium)
• Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Joseph Freedman, Alabama State University
• Aza Goudriaan, VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• Charles D. Gunnoe Jr., Aquinas College
• Robert Kolb, Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis
• Ulrich Lehner, Marquette University
• Elsie Anne McKee, Princeton Theological Seminary
• Thomas Osborne, University of St. Thomas, Houston
• Piotr Wilczek, University of Warsaw (Poland)
• Jeffrey C. Witt, Philosophy Department, Boston College

PRDL has moved! The new and expanded website is www.prdl.org.

We will leave this website up during our period of transition, but new material will only be added to the new website.

Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? - Cicero, Orator 120

Medieval Theology Early Modern Theology Reformed Lutheran Roman Catholic Anabaptist Arminian-Remonstrant Socinian-Unitarian Secondary Sources Early Modern Philosophy Primary Sources Secondary Sources Early Modern Antiqua Select Patristica Select Philosophica Authoritative Writings Bibles Creeds and Confessions Synodical Records	Universities Reference Linguistic Tools Biographical Dictionaries Dictionaries of Anonyms & Pseudonyms Theological & Church-Historical Dictionaries / Encyclopedias Historical Atlases Guides to Archives Bibliographies Other Resources Correspondence Parker Society Periodicals & Journals Links Digital Libraries Related Websites About PRDL

• Jacobus Trigland, Sr., Antapologia, sive examen atque refutatio totius Apologiae remonstrantium (Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium, 1664) PDF
• Martinus Becanus, Opera Omnia (Mainz: Schönvvetter, 1649) [UBM / PDF]
• New digital libraries:
  • [SBB] Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (4000+ sources)
  • [UBM] Universitätsbibliothek Marburg (200+ sources)
  • [ULBD] Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (1500+ sources)
• New Lutheran author: Aepinus, Johann (1499-1553)
• New Reformed author: Knibbe, David (1639-1701)
• New Lutheran author: Cundisius, Gottfried (1599-1651)
• Friedrich Balduin
  • Brevis Diexodos De Sano Physicae Usu In Rebus Divinis: Ubi exemplis aliquot ostenditur, quomodo etiam ex sobria de principiis & adfectionibus corporum naturalium doctrina errores nonnulli Theologici commode castigari queant (Wittenberg: Meisnerianis, 1601) [ULB / PDF]
  • De Disputatione Lutheri cum Diabolo; in controversia de privata Mißa, Tractatio Theologica Et Scholastica (Eisleben, 1605) [ULB / PDF]
  • De justitia fidei disputatio publica (Wittenberg, 1608) [SLUB / PDF]
• Martin Bucer
  • De Regno Christi Iesu seruatoris nostri, Libri II. Ad Eduardum Vi. Angliae Regem, annis abhinc sex scripti: non solum Theologis atque Iurisperitis profuturi, uerùm etiam cunctis Rempub. bene & feliciter administraturis cognitu cumprimis necessarij (Basel: Johann Oporinus, 1557) [ULB / PDF]
  • Metaphrasis et Enarratio in Epist. D. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos, in quibus singulatim Apostoli omnia cum argumenta, tum sententiae & uerba, ad autoritatem diuinae scripturae, fidem[que] Ecclesiae Catholicae tam priscae quàm praesentis, religiosè ac paulò fusius excutiuntur (Basel: Peter Perna, 1562) [ULB / PDF]
• Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in sacram Actuum Apostolicorum historiam, facili & perspicua methodo conscripti ([Geneva]: Ioannes Le Preux, 1580) [e-rara / PDF]