Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by Richard Simon

Added by Leighton Library at 08:47 on 13 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of the controversial "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by French priest, influential biblical critic and orientalist Richard Simon who was born #OnThisDay 13 May 1638. In this book Richard Simon denied that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch and showed th...

Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" by Matteo Ricci

Added by Leighton Library at 17:36 on 11 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" (On the Christian Mission among the Chinese) by Italian priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci who died #OnThisDay 11 May 1610. He argued that Confucianism and Christianity are remarkably similar. His journals contain...

Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" by Juan de Ávila

Added by Leighton Library at 06:17 on 10 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" - the works of Spanish priest, preacher, author, and religious mystic declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church, Juan de Ávila, who died #OnThisDay 10 May 1569. During his nine years of missionary w...