Theologia germanica
Subtitle: in qua continentur articuli de fide, euangelio, virtutibus et sacramentis : quorum materia iam nostra tempestate controverti solet
Contributors: Breu, Jörg, approximately 1480-1537, illustrator; Weissenhorn, Alexander, -1549, printer; Silbereysen, Martin, active 16th century, publisher; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Per Alexandrum Vueyssenhorn, expensis perdiligentis uiri Martini Silbereysen
Published: 1531
Place of publication: Excusum Augustae Vindelicorum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; Early works to 1800; Catholic Church
Other titles: Theologia Germanica
Work titles: Deutsche Theologie
Notes: Latin translation of the first extended Catholic treatise on dogma in the German language.  While definitely of a reforming mindset, Pürstinger is a loyal Roman Catholic, attacking the Lutheran view of Justification by faith alone, and defending the power and privileges of the Pope.

First published 1528 in German under title: Tewtsche Theologey.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-Z⁶ a-o⁶.

Noted in Schaff-Herzog Encl. of rel. knowledge, v. 9, p. 359-360.

Two prefaces, one by Mathaeus, Cardinal Archbishop of Salzburg, directed to the author, the other by the author directed to the Cardinal Archbishop.

Title within engraved pictorial border, attributed to Jörg Breu--De Graaf Antiquarian Booksellers, List 139.

Text in two columns.

Includes index.

Burke Library copy 2: Bound with: Onus Ecclesiae. [Augsburg : Alexander Weissenhorn], 1531.

Burke Library copy 2: No evidence of Van Ess provenance; cf. Gatch Van Ess catalog, A-1390b.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), P 2924

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, T562