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  • Protestant Wisdom Summer Program 2017

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    Protestant Wisdom Summer Program 2017

    From June 6th through 17th this year, seven students gathered from four countries to participate in Davenant’s first ever Intensive Protestant Wisdom Summer Program (a shortened version of last year’s Five-Week Program).   Taught by Dr. Alastair Roberts, a leading evangelical blogger and writer from the United Kingdom, this program sought to help train Christian…

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  • 2017 Davenant Fellowships Awarded

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    2017 Davenant Fellowships Awarded

    We are pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Davenant Fellowships.   As part of our ongoing commitment to help equip and support emerging scholars committed to renewing the life of the church through their research, we sponsor a scholarship competition each year, the Davenant Fellowship, with two $2,500 awards going to exemplary doctoral…

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  • “Male and Female He Created Them: Genesis 1-3 and the Meaning of the Sexes” Lecture by Dr. Alastair Roberts

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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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  • Convivium West: Theology Among Friends

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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

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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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  • People of the Promise – Buy Your Copy Today!

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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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  • September 21st: Commemorating Luther’s Translation

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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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  • September 25th: The Peace of Augsburg

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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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  • October 11 – Zwingli: The Warrior of the Reformation

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    October 11 – Zwingli: The Warrior of the Reformation

    At the same time as Luther was stirring the pot in Germany, another young man was coming to very similar conclusions independently! His name was Ulrich Zwingli, and he was an avid reader of Erasmus. Reading Erasmus convinced him that he was not to look to the Virgin Mary or the saints for salvation, but…

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  • “Such a Candle as Will Never Be Put Out”: The Martyrdom of Bishops Ridley and Latimer

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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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