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  • 2024 Spring Regional Convivium – Reason and Imagination: Literature as a Vehicle for the True, Good & Beautiful

    2024 Spring Regional Convivium – Reason and Imagination: Literature as a Vehicle for the True, Good & Beautiful

    The Davenant Institute invites you to the Spring rendition of our now bi-annual Carolinas Regional Convivium Irenicum. Learn More

    March 15-16th, 2024 | Davenant House, Landrum, SC
  • Second Annual Davenant Award Banquet

    Second Annual Davenant Award Banquet

    At our second annual award banquet, the Davenant Institute is pleased to honor Dr. Wilfred McClay with the C.S. Lewis Award for Christian Wisdom, in recognition of his crucial recent work. Learn More

    Thursday, April 4th, 2024 | The Capital Hilton, Washington, DC
  • Beyond Rules and Roles: Scripture and the Sexes

    Beyond Rules and Roles: Scripture and the Sexes

    Join us for a 2 day Bay Area seminar on a biblical theology of the sexes. Learn More

    April 24-25, 2024 | 3Crosses Church, Castro Valley, CA

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The Davenant Press publishes new books, essay collections, and new editions of historic Christian texts to resource pastors, scholars, and laypeople.

The Word Made Flesh For Us

MODERNIZED AND EDITED BY BRAD LITTLEJOHN AND PATRICK TIMMIS WITH BRIAN MARR | $19.95 | XL + 105 PG | Paperback

In this fifth volume of a multi-year translation project by the Davenant Institute, we present key sections from Book V of Hooker’s Laws, in which Hooker thoroughly yet succinctly lays out the Reformed yet catholic perspective on both Christology and the sacraments. Long regarded as both the theological and rhetorical high point of the Laws, these chapters provide a survey of the church’s historic teaching on the person of Christ and our union with him, as well as an irenic defense of Reformed distinctives over against the Catholic, Lutheran, and anti-sacramental alternatives.

Yet this is no dry theological tract: Hooker’s descriptions of Christ, baptism, and especially the eucharist are among the most stirring passages penned during the English Reformation. Book V of the Laws is as valuable today as it was when first written for the edification of the church, the sharpening of the mind, and the enrichment of the soul.

A Treatise on Christian Moderation

by Joseph Hall; EDITED BY ANDRE GAZAL | $25.95 | 207 PG | Paperback

Political and religious convictions, strongly held, are tearing families, communities, and slowly the whole country apart. The men with the most extreme personalities seem to rise to the top, while those urging moderation are mocked and sidelined.

This may sound like the present day–but it refers to England in the run-up to the Civil War in 1642. As the nation rolled towards a conflict which would claim tens of thousands of lives, Bishop Joseph Hall (1574-1656) called on his countrymen to exercise an unglamorous yet vital Christian virtue: moderation. Hall, one of the English representatives at the Council of Dort, was branded “our English Seneca” for his intellectual abilities. These abilities are on full display in this work as he musters Scripture, philosophy, and history into a comprehensive commendation of the virtue of moderation.

In this new edition of A Treatise on Christian Moderation, with extensive footnotes and a scholarly introduction, readers can rediscover a forgotten treasure of Protestant wisdom. Hall’s call for personal and public moderation was tragically ignored in his time. In our own increasingly immoderate age, may this work finally find the hearing it deserves.

On the Death of Christ

BY JOHN DAVENANT, TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY MICHAEL J. LYNCH | $47.95 $35.95| 428 PG | Paperback

For whom did Christ die?

John Davenant’s Death of Christ remains the most significant and comprehensive example of English hypothetical universalism. Coming on the heels of the Synod of Dordt, Davenant’s Death of Christ is a scholastic treatise dealing with the question of the extent of Christ’s atonement-for whom did Christ die? Avoiding both the Scylla of Arminianism and Charybdis of certain strands of Reformed theology, Davenant employs Scripture, reason, and testimonies from ecclesiastical history in defense of the so-called Lombardian formula: Christ died for all people sufficiently; efficaciously for the elect alone.

John Davenant’s On the Death of Christ, a classic of English Reformed thought on the atonement, is now available in a new translation by Dr. Michael Lynch–the first in modern English. This book also features two shorter letters which Davenant wrote on this topic to both the French Reformed churches and to Herman Hildebrand.

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