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First published in Latin in 1560, Wolfgang Musculus’s Common Places of Christian Religion is a substantial exposition of the Reformed faith from the formative years of the Protestant Reformation. Translated into English by John Man in 1563 and published again in 1578, it brought the learning of one of the continental Reformation’s foremost Biblical scholars to English readers. Arranged under the principal subjects of Christian doctrine, the work ranges from God, creation, sin, and the law to redemption, justification, the Church, and the sacraments. Its scope extends into the daily exercise of faith: prayer, obedience, suffering, patience, civil government, oaths, and the use of money. Musculus reasons extensively from Scripture, engages the testimony of the Church Fathers, and answers the controversies of his age with a preacher’s concern for the understanding and conduct of his readers. Presented by Berith Press in three volumes, this edition makes a major work of Reformation theology accessible to a new generation of pastors, students, and Christian readers.
“Wolfgang Musculus is a name known to few but one definitely worthy of inclusion among the titans of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. As a theologian and exegete, Musculus wrote biblical commentaries and theological treatises, but his magnum opus is his Commonplaces. Though his work was once lost beneath the sands of the hourglass it is now republished! Christians will want to read and carefully study this masterpiece of Reformed theology.”
J.V. Fesko
Harriet Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology
Reformed Theological Seminary
Jackson, Mississippi
Release date: November 2nd, 2026
6X9 Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Volume 1: 630 pages
Volume 2: 476 pages
Volume 3: 710 pages
First published in Latin in 1560, Wolfgang Musculus’s Common Places of Christian Religion is a substantial exposition of the Reformed faith from the formative years of the Protestant Reformation. Translated into English by John Man in 1563 and published again in 1578, it brought the learning of one of the continental Reformation’s foremost Biblical scholars to English readers. Arranged under the principal subjects of Christian doctrine, the work ranges from God, creation, sin, and the law to redemption, justification, the Church, and the sacraments. Its scope extends into the daily exercise of faith: prayer, obedience, suffering, patience, civil government, oaths, and the use of money. Musculus reasons extensively from Scripture, engages the testimony of the Church Fathers, and answers the controversies of his age with a preacher’s concern for the understanding and conduct of his readers. Presented by Berith Press in three volumes, this edition makes a major work of Reformation theology accessible to a new generation of pastors, students, and Christian readers.
“Wolfgang Musculus is a name known to few but one definitely worthy of inclusion among the titans of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. As a theologian and exegete, Musculus wrote biblical commentaries and theological treatises, but his magnum opus is his Commonplaces. Though his work was once lost beneath the sands of the hourglass it is now republished! Christians will want to read and carefully study this masterpiece of Reformed theology.”
J.V. Fesko
Harriet Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology
Reformed Theological Seminary
Jackson, Mississippi
Release date: November 2nd, 2026
6X9 Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Volume 1: 630 pages
Volume 2: 476 pages
Volume 3: 710 pages
