The Works of Nicholas Ridley D.D., Sometime Lord Bishop of London, Martyr 1555

The Works Of Nicholas Ridley D.D., Sometime Lord Bishop Of London, Martyr 1555 by Nicholas Ridley. This volume presents Ridley’s reforming witness through prison letters, doctrinal treatises, and disputational writings from the English Reformation. It includes his examination of decretal epistles as spurious, a detailed Oxford disputation on the real presence (Disputatio Habita Oxonit, 1554), Ridley’s defense of a spiritual reading of the Lord’s Supper, and a polemical critique of transubstantiation. The collection also contains The Brief Declaration against Transubstantiation and Piteous Lamentation on the church’s condition during Marian restoration, with appendices containing related letters and records of appeals to Scripture and patristic authorities. Throughout, Ridley argues for Scripture over papal decrees, for the unity of the church grounded in biblical revelation, and for a Protestant sacramental theology that rejects bodily change of the elements while affirming Christ’s presence by grace. The text blends scholarly debate, devotional exhortation, and martyr-narrative to illuminate Tudor-era theology and ecclesial conflict.