05/23/2026
Now available!
“Against the Secret Calvinists: Nicolaus Selnecker’s Exegema and His 1571 Defense of the Lutheran Doctrine of Christ and the Lord’s Supper,” by Nicolaus Selnecker.
In 1570, Nicolaus Selnecker and Martin Chemnitz endeavored to reason with the Crypto-Calvinists on the faculty at the University of Wittenberg. The result was a campaign by the Crypto-Calvinists to undermine Selnecker's ministry--even going so far as to slander him to the Elector of Saxony. For the first time, Selnecker 'Exegema' (the document he presented to the Crypto-Calvinists) and his ‘Letter to Gesner' (his account of the Crypto-Calvinists' attacks on him) are available in English.
Against the Secret Calvinists: Nicolaus Selnecker’s Exegema and His 1571 Defense of the Lutheran Doctrine of Christ and the Lord’s Supper