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Decades II.7: Of the Magistrate
The whole office of a magistrate seemeth to consist in these three points: to order, to judge, and to punish, of every one whereof I mean to speak severally in order as they lie. The ordinance of the magistrate is a decree made by him for maintaining of religion, honesty, justice, and public peace: and…
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Dr. Alastair Roberts Joins the Davenant Institute
The Davenant Institute is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Alastair Roberts as a long-term Teaching Fellow. Dr. Roberts, who has taught summer intensive programs and lectured on behalf of the Davenant Institute in the past, will continue to teach residential courses and lecture on a larger scale, as well as writing, developing online…
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Martin Luther’s Farewell to Arms: The Two Kingdoms and the Rejection of Crusading
Martin Luther’s political theology has fallen on hard times. While it was once common to give him credit for the emergence of modern political liberties, Luther’s legacy has, especially since the second world war, soured. Many have claimed that he set the stage for an unholy sort of sacred nationalism, while more recent commentators say…
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Protestantism’s Idolatry Problem
Protestantism today has an idolatry problem. And by that I do not mean what countless Protestant preachers on both the left and the right can be heard thundering from pulpits every Sunday—that we have embraced the idol of Mammon, or of the State, or of personal freedom, or of gluten-free dieting, etc. This may all…
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The Busy Student’s Method for Learning Latin
It seems to be a rule that those who want to learn Latin are always very busy. I’ve taught fellow graduate students who have had to cram Latin homework between full-time studies, part-time work, and family meals. I’ve taught middle schoolers for whom Latin lessons vied for attention with sports, music, and math worksheets. I’ve…
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Do Something Hard This Summer
A few years Alan Jacobs posted an old syllabus for a class at the University of Michigan taught by the great English poet W. H. Auden. It required 6,000 pages of reading… in one semester. Titled “Fate and the Individual in European Literature,” Auden’s course required students to read the entire Divine Comedy, Horace’s Odes,…
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Taking the Next Steps
The Lord has been very good to the Davenant Institute over the past year. We were able to make great contributions to the Reformation 500 commemoration with our publications of People of the Promise: A Mere Protestant Ecclesiology and Reformation Theology: A Reader of Primary Sources.
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The Bible and the Religion of Protestants
“The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of Protestants.” So wrote English Protestant apologist William Chillingworth in 1637, but the same words might just as well have been written in 1537 or 1937.
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Denver Convivium 2018 – Summary
Earlier this month, The Davenant Institute held its Second Annual Denver Regional Convivium Irenicum in the shadow of the Rocky Mountain foothills, at Colorado Christian University.
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