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Announcing Acquisition of Peter Martyr Library
We are pleased to announce that The Davenant Institute has just concluded a contract with Truman State University Press to take full possession of the Peter Martyr Library. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, TSUP will transfer all rights, electronic files, and hard copies of the ten volumes of the Peter Martyr Library (including its accompanying…
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The Real Presence and the Presence of Reality
On October 16th, Davenant Institute President Brad Littlejohn was invited to give a lecture at Hillsdale College on the doctrine of the Eucharistic real presence in the Protestant Reformation. In the lecture, he argued that contrary to many popular narratives and misrepresentations, the Reformed did hold to a kind of real presence of the body…
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WATCH: Is Biblicism Bad?
[vc_row 0=””][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=””]With all the Reformation celebrations, many critics of Protestantism pick on the Protestant commitment to sola Scriptura as the source of all kinds of chaos. But does sola Scriptura need to entail biblicism? And why might Protestants want to beware biblicism? Brad Belschner and Alastair Roberts discuss. Watch the discussion below![/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/LrTyM29XRNU”][vc_column_text 0=””]…
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PUBLISHED: Reformation Theology
On October 31st, The Davenant Institute published Reformation Theology: A Reader of Primary Sources with Introductions. Edited by Bradford Littlejohn and Jonathan Roberts, this work reflects the clarion call of the Protestant Reformers, “Ad fontes!—Back to the sources!” for our own generation. Just as they recognized that renewal of the church in their era depended upon a…
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Reformation 500: Celebrating Is Not Enough
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The following letter from the President, Brad Littlejohn, was sent out to all Davenant subscribers on October 31, Reformation Day[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1509565922997{padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #9e3232 !important;}”][vc_column_text] CELEBRATING IS NOT ENOUGH [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][vc_column_text 0=””] There are few enough historical anniversaries that seem to merit even passing recognition in our forgetful age, so we can be grateful…
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Introduction to Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses
This article appeared in Ad Fontes Vol II, Issue 2. Excerpted from Davenant’s forthcoming Reformation Theology volume. Few documents in Christian history have become as iconic as Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, the ringing denunciation of the corruptions of the late medieval church that was to spark the Protestant Reformation. Luther may or may not have…
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WATCH: Getting Beyond Headship Battles: Male and Female in Scripture
In this episode, Brad Belschner and Alastair Roberts discuss headship and submission in order to clear misconceptions concerning gender relations that are common even within Christian circles. While it may seem that Genesis presents man as the center of creation and woman as simply his sidekick or personal assistant, Alastair points out that man’s authority…
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The Gospel Expressed: Luther’s Teaching on Alien Righteousness as Divine Gift
When exactly the levee is going to break is not easy to know, but when it does we all know. October 31, 1517 is the day the levee broke in the church of the West. It is not likely that Luther was aware he was laying his ax to the root. But that is what…
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Interview with Davenant Fellow Alex Mason
Alex Mason is a native of Lynchburg, Virginia. After completing an undergraduate degree ingovernment from Liberty University, Alex went on to complete graduate degrees in public policy, church history, ethics, and theology from Liberty University, Southeastern Seminary, and Southern Seminary. Currently, he lives in Scotland where he is a PhD candidate in Divinity (Theological Ethics) at…
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“Such a Candle as Will Never Be Put Out”: The Martyrdom of Bishops Ridley and Latimer
This post is an excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Ed. Forbush) Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer These reverend prelates suffered October 16, 1555, at Oxford, on the same day Wolsey and Pygot perished at Ely. Pillars of the Church and accomplished ornaments of human nature, they were the admiration of the realm, amiably conspicuous…
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