Examination of the Council of Trent (Latin: Examen Concilii Tridentini, 1565–73) is a large theological work of Lutheran Reformer Martin Chemnitz.
It includes the decrees and canons of the Council of Trent analysed from a Lutheran point of view.
R. Bendixen and Christoph Ernst Luthardt published a condensed version of 4 volume work Examen Concilii Tridentini, condensed to a single volume of 287 pages in 1884.
[1][2] Examination of the Council of Trent has been translated into English by Fred Kramer and published by Concordia Publishing House, 1971–86.
Diogo de Payva de Andrada, a delegate at the Council of Trent, replied to Chemnitz's Examen with what is regarded as his best work: A Defence of the Faith of Trent, published in 1578.