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Ad Fontes Volume II
Volume II, Issue 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 2 OF AD FONTES Tertullian famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” The relationship between faith and reason, between the Holy Scriptures and natural revelation, and between Christian doctrine and non-Christian philosophy, has been the subject of immense debate within the Christian tradition. Unfortunately, the…
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September 25th: The Peace of Augsburg
As Roland Bainton writes in Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, “In the sixteenth century people did not commonly agree to differ.”[1] Political and religious disagreements often ended in violence. Remember Luther going into hiding at the Wartburg castle? It wasn’t because he was worried that his Scriptural interpretation would be questioned, or that there would…
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September 21st: Commemorating Luther’s Translation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 21, 1522: Luther’s Translation of the NT Published Rome’s Censure of Scripture The council of Trent (1545-1563), in its 4th session, stated: “But if any one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and…
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People of the Promise – Buy Your Copy Today!
As we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, many Protestants, whether in the pews, the pulpit, or the academy, are apt to feel a bit uncertain about just how enthusiastically they can celebrate the Protestant doctrine of the church. After all, isn’t this doctrine the weakest link in Protestant theology, as modern-day Catholic apologists…
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JESUS AND PACIFISM: A CORRESPONDENCE (PT. II)
MYLES WERNTZ AND ANDREW FULFORD Following the publication of Andrew Fulford’s Jesus and Pacifism: An Exegetical and Historical Examination, Dr. Myles Werntz contacted Fulford with the proposal that the two of them undertake a correspondence on the subject. Dr. Werntz is the T.B. Maston Chair of Christian Ethics at Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University. A…
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JESUS AND PACIFISM: A CORRESPONDENCE (PT. I)
MYLES WERNTZ AND ANDREW FULFORD Following the publication of Andrew Fulford’s Jesus and Pacifism: An Exegetical and Historical Examination, Dr. Myles Werntz contacted Fulford with the proposal that the two of them undertake a correspondence on the subject. Dr. Werntz is the T.B. Maston Chair of Christian Ethics at Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University. A…
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Convivium West: Theology Among Friends
By Gayle Doornbos From August 17-19, the Davenant Institute hosted its first National Convivium Irenicum West in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The theme of the gathering was the same as the National Convivium East held earlier this summer: “To All Generations: Teaching the Doctrine of God in the Life of the Church.” As with all…
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PPPEP 2017 Report
By Alastair Roberts Over the course of five days, eight students gathered together on the shores of the beautiful Lake Coeur D’Alene to explore the wisdom of the Protestant tradition on philosophical, ethical, and political issues. During this period of intense conversation, study, and fellowship, we delved deeply into the riches of writers such as…
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“Male and Female He Created Them: Genesis 1-3 and the Meaning of the Sexes” Lecture by Dr. Alastair Roberts
About the Lecture Dr. Alastair Roberts argues for an understanding of male and female vocation within creation that mirrored the structure of God’s own creative work of first “forming” and then “filling” his world. In the Q&A, he particularly draws attention to the changed social and economic conditions of modernity which have rendered formerly intelligible…
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