Repristination Press

09/01/2026

The final installment of Book I of Johann Gerhard's “Confessio Catholica” is now available.

Volume V is live today, and with it, all of ‘Book I: General’ stands complete in English for the first time. Gerhard ends it not by asking which religion is true, but how a religion spreads.

08/24/2026

“The Life of David Chytraeus” and the pious remembrance of the saints.

A year after David Chytraeus died, the people who had known him best memorialized him in print. The first thing you notice about the book they made is that they would not lie about him.

08/20/2026

“Taking the Scissors to Augustine”: Johann Gerhard unmasks how the Papists change the writings of the Fathers.

What Rome does when a Father says something it cannot use—from Volume IV of the Gerhard’s “Confessio Catholica.”

08/18/2026

“Confessio Catholica” Book I, Vol. IV is now available. It's a single chapter: Johann Gerhard on the Fathers and the catholicity of the Church.

Volume IV of the Confessio Catholica is live, and it takes up the one chapter on which the whole quarrel turns: Johann Gerhard on the Church Fathers, and what place their writings hold in the Church

08/11/2026

Johann Gerhard answers the oldest papist jab and demonstrates the catholicity of Lutheran doctrine from papist sources.

The oldest jab against the Reformation has a standard form — and Johann Gerhard answers it not with a claim, but with a roll call of witnesses from before Luther was born.

08/10/2026

David Chytraeus’ “An Oration” and the confessional Lutheran assessment of the Eastern (and other) churches.

How the Augsburg Confession, translated into Greek, reached the Patriarch of Constantinople — and what Chytraeus did and did not claim about it

08/05/2026

An update on the publication of the English translation of “Schola Pietatis.”

Yesterday you met the Gerhard who takes the papacy apart from its own sources. Here is the same man teaching a Christian how to pray.

08/05/2026

“An Oration: concerning the State of the Churches at This Time...,” by David Chytraeus

Where is the Church of Christ to be found in a world fractured by conquest, confessional division, and the collapse of ancient Christian centers?

In this remarkable work, the Lutheran theologian and historian David Chytraeus surveys the condition of Christian churches in Greece, Asia, Africa, Hungary, Bohemia, and beyond. Drawing upon travel, diplomatic correspondence, patriarchal letters, eyewitness testimony, and Eastern Christian documents, he describes worship and ecclesiastical life under Ottoman rule and across the contested frontiers of sixteenth-century Europe.

Chytraeus’s original 1569 oration is accompanied by a rich documentary appendix containing letters from the Patriarch of Constantinople and Mount Sinai, accounts of Athens and the Ottoman capital, descriptions of Greek doctrine and rites, and materials concerning Ethiopian and Armenian Christianity. Together, these texts preserve a rare Lutheran encounter with Eastern Christendom during an age of profound religious and political upheaval.

08/04/2026

The majority of Book I of Gerhard's Confessio Catholica is now available in an English translation. More volumes are on the way.

Repristination Press begins the first complete English translation of Johann Gerhard’s Confessio Catholica—and it is already further along than you might imagine

08/03/2026

In 1580, David Chytraeus published an assessment of the state of the Church in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. The result is an insightful assessment of the trials and tribulations, strengths and weaknesses, areas of faithfulness and theological compromise found in various churches throughout the world—from the perspective of one of the Formulators of Concord.

David Chytraeus, in 1580, asks where Christ’s Church is to be found in a world of empires — and answers with a map