The Corpus Catholicorum (Corp. Cath., CCath., CC) is a collection of sixteenth century writings by the leading proponents and defenders of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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 against the teachings of the Protestant reformers

Protestant Reformers

Protestant Reformers were those theologians, churchmen, and statesmen whose careers, works, and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century...

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The full title of the series is: Corpus Catholicorum: Werke katholischer Schriftsteller im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung i.e. Body of Catholic [writings]: Works of Catholic authors in the Time of the Splitting of the Faith.

The series, intended as a counterpart to the Corpus Reformatorum

Corpus Reformatorum

The Corpus Reformatorum , is the general Latin title given to a large collection of Reformation writings. This collection, which runs to 101 volumes, contains reprints of the collected works of John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, and Huldrych Zwingli, three of the leading Protestant reformers...

, was conceived by Professor Joseph Greving (1868–1919) of the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

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 in 1915, and was announced that same year in the Theologische Revue as a "Plan für ein Corpus Catholicorum" or "Plan for a Corpus Catholicorum"

List of volumes in the Corpus Catholicorum

• Vol. 1, Dr. Joseph Greving, S.J., ed., Münster in Westfalen, 1919, Verlag der Aschendorffeschen Verlagsbuchhandlung - HathiTrust
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  . http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015068632341
  • Johann Eck
    Johann Eck
    Dr. Johann Maier von Eck was a German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar.-Life:...
    
    . Defensio contra amarulentas d. Andreae Bodenstein, http://books.google.com/books?id=SysMAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Defensio+Contra+Amarulentas+D.+Andreae+Bodenstein+Carolstatini+%22&dq=%22Defensio+Contra+Amarulentas+D.+Andreae+Bodenstein+Carolstatini+%22&lr=&pgis=1

• Vol. 2, Johannes Metzler, S.J. ed., Münster in Westfalen, 1921 - HathiTrust. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012291574
  • Johannes Eck, Epistola de Ratione Studiorum Suorum (1538)
  • Erasmus Wolph, De Orbitu Ioan. Eckii Adversus Calumniam Viti Theodorici (1543)

• Vol. 3. Joseph Schweizer, ed., Munster in Westfalen, 1920.
  • Johann Cochlaeus
    Johann Cochlaeus
    Johann Cochlaeus was a German humanist and controversialist.-Life:Originally Johann Dobneck, he was born of poor parents at Wendelstein , from which he obtained the punning surname Cochlaeus , for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus...
    
    . Adversus cucullatum minotaurum wittenbergensem: De sacramentorum gratia iterum, (1523),

• Vol. 4, Dr. Franz Xaver Thurnhofer, ed., Munster in Westfalen, 1921 - HathiTrust. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026296833;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=8
  • Jerome Emser
    Jerome Emser
    Jerome Emser , antagonist of Luther, was born of a good family at Ulm.He studied Greek at Tübingen and jurisprudence at Basel, and after acting for three years as chaplain and secretary to Raymond Peraudi, cardinal of Gurk, he began lecturing on classics in 1504 at Erfurt, where Luther may have...
    
     (Hieronymus Emser), De disputatione Lipsicensi, quantum ad Boemos obiter deflexa est, (1519)
  • A Venatione Luteriana Aegocerotis Assertio, (1519)

• Vol. 5, Dr. Ulrich Schmidt O. F. M
  Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
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  , ed., Münster in Westfalen, Aschendorff, 1922 - HathiTrust. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026253966;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=8;num=ii
  • Kaspar Schatzgeyer O. F. M., Scrutinium Divinae Scripturae pro conciliatione dissidentium dogmatum (1522).

• Vol. 34. Pierre Fraenkel, ed., Münster in Westfalen, Aschendorff, 1979.
  • Johann Eck
    Johann Eck
    Dr. Johann Maier von Eck was a German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar.-Life:...
    
    . Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutherum et alios hostes ecclesiae; mit den Zusätzen von Tilmann Smeling. [Enchiridion (i.e., handbook or manual) of Commonplaces against Luther and other Enemies of the Church: with the additions by Tilmann Smeling] ISBN 9783402031827 http://books.google.com/books?id=ygq-NQAACAAJ&dq=%22Enchiridion+locorum+communium+adversus+Lutherum+%22&lr=

• Vol. 43. Pierre Fraenkel, Münster, Aschendorff, 1992, ISBN 3402034573 ISBN 9783402034576.
  • Henry VIII
    Henry VIII of England
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    . Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum, Henry VIII, King of England.

• Vols. 45-48: Mary Ward
  Mary Ward (nun)
  The Venerable Mary Ward, I.B.V.M., was an English Catholic Religious Sister who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Loreto Sisters...
  
   und ihre Gründung: Die Quellentexte bis 1645 (Mary Ward and Her Foundation. The Source Texts to 1645), 4 vols, 2007, Sr. Ursula Dirmeier, CJ
  Sisters of Loreto
  The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, more commonly known as the Loreto Sisters , is a women's Catholic religious order founded by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609 at Saint-Omer in northern France...
  
  , ed., Münster 2007.

• Vol. 45 (Band 1), ISBN 9783402034590 ISBN 340203459X http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9783402034590&=Search&qt=results_page
• Vol. 46 (Band 2), ISBN 9783402034606 ISBN 3402034603 http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9783402034606&qt=advanced
• Vol. 47 (Band 3), ISBN 9783402034613 ISBN 3402034611 http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9783402034613&qt=advanced
• Vol. 48 (Band 4) ISBN 9783402034620 ISBN 340203462X http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9783402034620&qt=advanced

Books

• Joseph Greving, Plan für ein Corpus Catholicorum (Sonderabdruck aus der Theologischen Revue, Jahrgang. 14, i.e. printed separately from the Theological Review, vol. 14, Nr. 17/18), Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1916], Münster in Westphalen http://books.google.com/books?id=aJ5BGwAACAAJ&dq=%22Plan+f%C3%BCr+ein+Corpus+Catholicorum%22&lr=&client=firefox-a
• Joseph Greving, Johann Eck als junger Gelehrter. Eine literar- und dogmengeschichtliche Untersuchung über seinen Chrysopassus praedestinationis aus dem Jahre 1514,Aschendorff, [1906], Münster in Westphalen.http://books.google.com/books?id=xYiqGQAACAAJ&dq=%22johann+Eck+als+junger+Gelehrter%22&lr=&client=firefox-a