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This Week in Church History: Marburg Colloquy Day 3 (October 3)
Older posts in the series: Introduction Day 1 (October 1) Day 2 (October 2) Day 4 (October 4) The third day of the Marburg Colloquy is the day that the wheels basically came off the cart. The first day featured informal discussions with a small group and was followed by more official (and similarly fruitless) discussions…
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This Week in Church History: Marburg Colloquy Day 2 (October 2)
Other posts in the series: Introduction Day 1 (October 1) Day 3 (October 3) Day 4 (October 4) What we are referring to as day two of the colloquy is, technically speaking, day one. Though the discussion began informally on Friday the 1st between Luther, Zwingli, Melanchthon, and Oecolampadius, the colloquy did not officially begin…
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This Week in Church History: Marburg Colloquy Day One (October 1)
Other posts in the series: Introduction Day 2 (October 2) Day 3 (October 3) Day 4 (October 4) In the second part of our series on the Marburg Colloquy, we’re looking at the events on the first day of the Marburg Colloquy, October 1, 1529. Beginnings of the Colloquy The colloquy began informally on the morning…
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This Week in Church History: Marburg Colloquy Introduction
Other posts in the series: Day 1 (October 1) Day 2 (October 2) Day 3 (October 3) Day 4 (October 4) October 1 will mark the anniversary of the beginning of the Marburg Colloquy, held in 1529. Over the next several days, we’ll be publishing a series of posts going through the day-to-day happenings at…
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November Events in Dallas and Moscow
The Davenant Trust invites you to two upcoming events. Third Pacific Northwest Regional Convivium (Moscow, ID) November 4 @ 5:00 pm – November 5 @ 8:00 pm Join us in Moscow, ID on November 4th and 5th for our Third Pacific Northwest Regional Convivium Irenicum, a gathering of ecclesially-minded scholars, academically-minded pastors, and theologically-concerned professionals. Details…
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Published: “Radicalism: When Reform Becomes Revolution”
The first in our series translating the important theological work of Richard Hooker into modern English. Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally. However, on account of its difficult and archaic style, it is scarcely read today. The time has…
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“Common Places” Podcast Launches
The first edition of our podcast, Common Places, is up! In this episode, Dr. Brad Littlejohn discusses the mission and initiatives of the Davenant Trust along with the work of translating historical theology for the church today. https://davenantinstitute.org/common-places/
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Davenant Trust Releases Journal
Ad Fontes is a monthly publication seeking to explore great questions alongside the great cloud of witnesses. Ad Fontes, “to the sources,” was a rallying cry of the Reformation. The Reformers bequeathed to us a heritage, thick in the discourses and tools of humanism, which sought to address the hard questions of theology, philosophy, and…
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This Week in Church History: Death of Anne Bradstreet, September 16, 1672
On this day in 1672 the famous Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet died in North Andover, MA. Bradstreet along with her husband Simon had moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and had first helped settle the new settlement of Boston before moving on to what was then called Newe Towne in the early 1630s. Newe Towne would eventually…
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This Week in Church History: Founding of Harvard College (1636)
September 8, 1636 marks the founding of Harvard College in what was then called New Towne, but would come to be known as Cambridge, MA in later years. The college was originally founded as New College but was renamed two years after opening in honor of one of the school’s first benefactors, the Rev. John…
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