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Announcing Davenant House
We are excited to be able to announce, after several months of behind-the-scenes planning, fundraising, and negotiating, the launch of Davenant House, our permanent residential study center in the foothills of the Carolina Blue Ridge mountains. In the last week, our board finalized arrangements for the purchase of Laureldale Cottage, a beautiful log home that…
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Convivium Irenicum 2016 Call for Papers
June is not so far away anymore, and it is time to announce the theme and Call for Papers for our Fourth Annual Convivium Irenicum, to be held, as usual, at Laureldale Cottage (now Davenant House) in the SC Blue Ridge mountains. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Confessionalism and Diversity in the…
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Davenant Latin Institute Hires Aaron Denlinger
We are pleased to announce that, beginning this Spring Semester, Aaron Denlinger will be joining the faculty of our Davenant Latin Institute. Dr. Denlinger is Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Reformation Bible College, and Research Fellow for the Puritan Studies Program of the University of the Free State. He is the author…
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Davenant Funds Research Trip on English Reformation Poor Relief
In December 2015, the Davenant Trust provided a small grant to fund Mr. Brian Hanson, a Ph.D candidate at St. Andrews University, for a five-day research trip in London, involving archival research at The National Archives, British Library, London Metropolitan Archives, Lambeth Palace Library, and Kent History Centre. Mr. Hanson’s research concerns the English evangelical reformer…
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Davenant Trust Becomes Refo500 Partner and RefoRC member
We’re pleased to announce that earlier this week the Davenant Trust became an official partner with Refo500: Welcome to our new partner The Davenant Trust! https://t.co/Sv6EnYkUem @WBLittlejohn — Refo500 (@Refo500) November 3, 2015 Briefly, Refo500 and its affiliate RefoRC (the Reformation Research Consortium) are organizations led by Herman Selderhuis (who also serves on the Davenant Trust’s…
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Davenant Trust Launches Mid-Atlantic Chapter with Philadelphia Lecture
Nearly fifty people braved high winds and torrential rains in the mid-Atlantic last Friday night to hear Davenant President Brad Littlejohn’s lecture, “Richard Hooker: Reformed, Anglican, or Both?” hosted by the St. Mark’s Fellows at St. Mark’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Rydal, PA. This event marked an important step in The Davenant Trust’s mission to forge ties of conversation…
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Davenant Trust Offers Matching Donation for Research on Reformed Eucharistic Practice
Gregory Soderberg, a Christian school teacher and Ph.D candidate at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, has spent the last several years researching the practice (or non-practice) of weekly communion in the Reformed churches throughout their history, and the theological arguments for or against it. In December 2014 he launched, with the Davenant Trust’s support, a crowd-funding campaign on…
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Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Church of England
The Defending the Faith Conference took place in Salisbury, UK, from 16-17 September, 2014. Organized by Drs. Angela Ranson, Sarah Bastow, Andre Gazal and Lucy Wooding…
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Introducing Wenden House and the Davenant Fellows
Last month, New Saint Andrews launched their new Reformation translation program, Wenden House for Reformation Studies. This program aims to capitalize on the extraordinary Latin curriculum that NSA has had in place for many years, and its rigorous theologically-anchored liberal arts program, in order to equip the next generation of Latin scholars to bring key Reformation…
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The Future of Protestantism
On April 29th, 2014, The Davenant Trust sponsored a forum on “The Future of Protestantism,” held at Biola University in California. Hosted by the Torrey Honors Institute there, and co-sponsored by the magazine First Things, the forum brought together Dr. Peter J. Leithart (Trinity House Institute, Birmingham, AL; New Saint Andrews College, Moscow, ID), Dr. Carl Trueman…
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