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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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Protestantism After Liberalism? An Untapped Resource for Christian Political Thought
In perhaps the most famous passage of his City of God, Augustine argues that, since justice consists in giving to each his due, there can be no justice where God is not given his due, and thus a functioning commonwealth is impossible.[1] Instead, all we will have is a disorderly mass of individuals pursuing their…
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The Unique Benefits of Learning Latin
Until recently, Latin was a staple of any Western curriculum. From medieval times to America’s founding, no education was considered complete without it. Instruction usually began at a young age; by graduation, students could recite Virgil or Cicero with ease. It was not until the education reforms of the 1960s that it was all but…
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Davenant’s First Two Publications Get a Makeover
We are pleased to announce that we have updated and revised two of our earlier publications, For the Healing of the Nations and For Law and for Liberty. You will find descriptions of each work below.
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Mr. Grotius Goes to Washington
A funny thing happened a couple weeks ago in Washington, D.C. On a Friday night not far from the city’s most boozy blocks near Adam’s Morgan, a dozen or so Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars, practitioners, and aspiring practitioner-scholars gathered to discuss a great text and its relevance to the political and intellectual life of…
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