The Peter Martyr Library (9 vols.)
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Although largely unknown today outside the circle of Reformation scholars, Peter Martyr Vermigli was a true giant of the 16th-century Reformation, a man who left an indelible influence on the churches of Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and England where he spent his pilgrim life, and who through his writings left an even wider legacy. Standing as he does at the intersection of humanism and scholasticism, with a profound concern for Biblical exegesis and the renewal of preaching, but also for linguistic study, educational revival, Christian philosophy, ethics, and political thought, Vermigli sums up the broad and bold mission of the Davenant Institute to renew Christian wisdom through resourcement.
- Addresses key issues of the Reformation
- Contains comprehensive biographical details
- Includes extensive introductions and notes from editors and translators
This transfer has been the culmination of efforts by several parties for the future of the Peter Martyr Library and the Society. It grew out of a mutual concern by both the Davenant Trust and the Peter Martyr Society that an established center devoted to the vital importance the Reformation, its thought and heritage, should be found to help nurture the scholarship of Vermigli and insure his rightful place in the continuing historical and theological pursuits of our own day. Placed now fully in the hands of those who not only care about such pursuits as part of an academic life, but value them as proper and virtuous ends in themselves, this can only harbinger good things for research and publishing in all things Vermigiliana. We are happy indeed.
—Torrance Kirby and Gary Jenkins, the President and Secretary of the Peter Martyr Society
- Title: The Peter Martyr Library (9 vols.)
- Author: Peter Martyr Vermigli
- Editor: John Patrick Donnelly
- Series: The Peter Martyr Library
- Publisher: The Davenant Institute
- Volumes: 9
- Pages: 2,536
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Format: Digital
- Resource ID: {6C0DC05B-5C6C-4F5B-85BE-B6431EC3EF49}
Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562) is considered to be one of the most important Italian reformers of the early modern period. Martyr is the subject of renewed interest for historical and theological scholars.
