Corpus Catholicorum

This article is about a 16th-century Catholic collection of writings. For the body in the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, see itio in partes.
Title pages to volume 1Corpus Catholicorum.

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

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, was conceived in 1915 by Professor Joseph Greving (1868–1919) of the University of Bonn, and was announced that same year in the Theologische Revue as a "Plan für ein Corpus Catholicorum" or "Plan for a Corpus Catholicorum."[1]

  1. ^ The Fortnightly Review, vol. XXVI, no. 21, ed. by Arthur Preuss (St. Louis, Missouri, 1 November 1919), p. 332. Google Books.