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The Convivium Irenicum and Reformed Catholicity
Before I came to my first Convivium Irenicum a few years ago I remember wondering what the event would be like. Before getting involved with Davenant, my only experience in a reformed church was in the PCA. I had never been in an OPC church or an ARP church or a CRC church or even…
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Why Another Atheism Book?
There is not a shortage of books arguing against atheism propositionally. But what about trying to understand it on an emotional and existential level?
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“A Unique, Edifying, Soul-Stirring, and Intellectually Invigorating Conference”
Earlier this month we had our sixth annual Convivium Irenicum, held in upstate South Carolina near Greenville. As in previous years, we enjoyed a mixture of new people and long-time attendees and were blessed by an engaging keynote speaker and rich conversation around the conference’s theme. This year Dr. Michael Allen of RTS-Orlando was our…
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Building an Army of Friends
Dear friends, Ronald Reagan had a plaque on his desk that read “There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he does not care who gets the credit.” Over the past decade I have spent navigating the world of Christian scholarship, I have returned over and over to meditate on this arresting…
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A Call for a Free Council
As the controversy surrounding Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses intensified, the University of Wittenberg professor’s prince, Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, arranged for him to be interviewed by Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg during the meeting of the imperial diet there in October 1518. During the meeting the professor and the cardinal discussed indulgences, the treasury of…
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Why Protestant Christianity Needs a Theology of Natural Law
Natural law is an idea of perennial importance and controversy in the Western world, and now in other places too. This idea didn’t die in twentieth-century Protestant thought, but it fell on hard times. During the opening decades of the twenty-first century, interest in natural law has suddenly sprung to life again in many Protestant…
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A Recap of the Protestant Wisdom Primer
The 2018 Protestant Wisdom Primer went well, with students appreciating the retreat atmosphere as well as the reading and guidance of Dr. Alastair Roberts.
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How did early Protestants think about confessional subscription?
In a recent post at Reformation21, Guy Waters argues that a “Presbytery does possess the power to instruct one of its members or licentiates not to teach a difference that the court has determined an exception.” I agree. Interestingly, I can’t imagine this being an issue in the early modern period.
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Why You Should Care About Peter Martyr Vermigli
We tend to operate with an implicit Darwinian cynicism when it comes to the history of ideas—if someone or something has been consigned to the dustbin of history, there’s probably, we suspect, a good reason for it. At the very least, we figure, theology seems to be doing just fine without the contributions of this…
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Chronological Snobbery and the Christian Faith
In a recent post at Reformation21, Guy Waters argues that a “Presbytery does possess the power to instruct one of its members or licentiates not to teach a difference that the court has determined an exception.” I agree. Interestingly, I can’t imagine this being an issue in the early modern period.
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