DAVENANT INSTITUTE

Renewing Christian wisdom for the church

Retrieving the riches of classical Protestantism to renew

and build up the contemporary church.

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Upcoming Events
  • Protestant Wisdom Foundations I: Reading the Bible and the World

    Protestant Wisdom Foundations I: Reading the Bible and the World

    Join us at the Davenant House for our summer residential intensive program in biblical wisdom: Reading the Bible and the World. This program offers something of an intellectual crash course in classical Protestant political theory and how it may serve our own political thought today. Learn More

    June 19 – July 1, 2023 | Davenant House, Landrum, SC
  • Protestant Wisdom Foundations II: A Protestant Christendom

    Protestant Wisdom Foundations II: A Protestant Christendom

    Join us at the Davenant House for our summer residential intensive program in biblical wisdom: A Protestant Christendom. This program offers something of an intellectual crash course in classical Protestant political theory and how it may serve our own political thought today. Learn More

    July 17 – July 29, 2023 | Davenant House, Landrum, SC
  • Italy’s Forgotten Reformation

    Italy’s Forgotten Reformation

    Join us for a free Zoom lecture + Q&A with Dr. Chris Castaldo on Thursday 25th May 2023. Learn More

    Featuring Dr. Chris Castaldo | May 25, 2023 8 PM ET | Zoom

Check out our calendar for additional events.

  • CELEBRATING GOD’S GOODNESS OVER TEN YEARS

    As we celebrate our tenth anniversary year, the Davenant Institute has accomplished extraordinary things on a very modest budget, by God’s grace and the aid of our army of friends and donors. …read more

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  • The Davenant House Team Grows

    We are excited to announce some changes to the team as our ministry continues to grow and develop. …read more

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  • Bringing Baptists Back to Their Roots

    If you are a Baptist wanting to recover your confessional heritage in order to better serve the church, I hope you will consider joining us as we launch this Baptist Studies track at Davenant Hall!  …read more

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Davenant Projects
ReimaGining
Theological Education

At Davenant Hall, we are reinventing the medieval university for the digital age through affordable and expert online courses and degree programs.

A journal of
Protestant Letters

Ad Fontes is the journal of the Davenant Institute, publishing a premium print edition each quarter, a weekly podcast, and daily online articles.

Building an
Army of friends

Davenant House is our residential hub in the Blue Ridge Mountains, SC. Although we embrace the the benefits of technology, in-person fellowship is key to our mission.

Davenant Press

Resourcing

the Church

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

Synopsis of a Purer Theology

Volumes I-II

Ed WILLIAM DEN BOER & RIEMER A. FABER, Trans. RIEMER A. FABER | $79.99 $59.99 (Pre-order discount) | 2 VOLUMES – 400 PG EACH | HardBACK

The Synopsis offers both a snapshot of the state of confessional theology in the 17th-century Dutch Reformed tradition, and also an enduring example of how the project of systematizing doctrine can serve the church. The Leiden professors modeled thoroughness and clarity of thought in the face of confusion, and a vision of irenic Christian unity over brittle doctrinal uniformity. 

The Shining Human Creature

Christian Ethics, Vol. 1

BY THOMAS TRAHERNE, MODERNIZED BY COLIN REDEMER | $14.95 | XXII + 96 PAGES | PAPERBACK

What does it mean for man to live as one restored in Christ? Into this conversation comes Thomas Traherne—clergyman, poet, and mystic—to cast a vision of the “shining human creature,” in a new modernization by Colin Redemer.

Begotten Or Made? A New Edition for the 21st Century

BY OLIVER O’DONOVAN | $23.95 | 160 Pages

How is it that we have so lost sight of the meaning of the human person that our very biological sex is seen as just another medical problem to be solved by technique? In a society that has rejected all moral norms, that refuses to honor God as Creator, what hope do we have of stemming the tide of scientific intervention into even the most sacred dimensions of our humanity? In this prescient volume, originally published in 1984, the eminent theological ethicist Oliver O’Donovan offers a penetrating analysis of our confusion over human nature and the proper boundaries of medical science.

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Lectures

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Zoom Lecture

Common Places “podcast” channel, which is where we upload audio of events and such.

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