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Davenant Dispatch December 2017
Here’s what we’ve been up to. The Davenant Institute has been hard at work these past six months. Here’s the rundown of what we’ve done towards our goal of resourcing Christians with wisdom from the past, for the life of the church today.
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Now Published: Natural Law
We are pleased to announce the publication of the third installment in our Davenant Guides series, Natural Law: A Brief Introduction and Biblical Defense. Davenant Guides seek to offer short and accessible introductions to key issues of current debate in theology and ethics, drawing on a magisterial Protestant perspective and defending its contemporary relevance today. In…
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WATCH: Are Sexual Ethics Part of Orthodoxy?
With debates over sexuality roiling many denominations, many are calling for Christians to stop fighting and unite around the creeds. But can we so easily separate ethical and doctrinal orthodoxy when it comes to sexual issues? Brad Belschner and Alastair Roberts discuss. HIGHLIGHTS 00:01 – Why do we call God Father? Does it…
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The Gospel Embodied: Luther’s Theology of the Lord’s Supper
Martin Luther sought above all to understand God’s self-revelation in the gospel, and how men and women are to grasp this revelation. In the gospel Luther discovered a God who comes to us. God condescends to us to meet us in our need as Savior and gives himself for us. Jesus Christ is God for…
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WATCH: Is Ethics Part of Orthodoxy?
In this episode of Davenant Discussions, Brad Belschner and Alastair Roberts consider basic Christian ethics in relation to orthodoxy. Should these basics be considered a part of orthodoxy? How much can creeds simply assume? How much should they assume that a believer knows about Scripture? Watch the Discussion below! HIGHLIGHTS 00:01 – It…
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Ad Fontes II.3: Luther & Melanchthon
In this issue, Christopher Dorn presents Luther’s thinking on the Lord’s Supper and Jonathan Tomes introduces Luther’s theology of beauty in his review of Mark Mattes’ recent book on the topic. Bradford Littlejohn presents an introduction to Melanchthon’s Apology of the Augsburg Confession, finally followed by portions of the Apology itself. IN THIS ISSUE: The Gospel Embodied: Luther’s Theology of the…
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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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