Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 1855

Resourcing the Church

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Sharing the riches of classical Protestantism.

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Twenty-hour video lecture modules

Learn at your own pace, or take modules for credit through Davenant Hall.

Since the beginning, the Davenant Institute has made extensive use of online media to make the resources of classical Protestantism available and accessible for all. These lecture modules continue that work as part of the larger Davenant Hall program.

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The Story of Ancient & Medieval Christendom

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The Story of Ancient & Medieval Christendom

Light in the “dark ages”

Study Christian history from the post-apostolic age through the middle decades of the 1400s, tracing the church across councils, cultures, monastic movements, universities, missions, reform, schism, and renewal.

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Three complete lecture series

An Introduction to Biblical Wisdom

Video Lecture Series · $139

An Introduction to Biblical Wisdom

By Dr. Alastair Roberts

A sweeping introduction to the Bible and biblical wisdom

Faithful readers of Scripture may find themselves, even after decades steeped in the text, longing for a better understanding of God's Word. Deeper engagement requires better tools for excavating Scripture's many layers. If we aren't attentive to genre, literary form, and symb…

Included lecture topics
  • Reading the Bible: The Literature of the Bible
  • Reading the Bible: Symbolism and Typology
  • Reading the Bible Theologically
  • Old Testament Overview: The Pentateuch
  • Old Testament Overview: The Kingdom
  • Old Testament Overview: Exile and Return
  • The Gospels, Part 1
  • The Gospels, Part 2
  • Acts and the Mission of the Early Church
  • Epistles and Revelation
  • Introduction to Wisdom
  • Genesis 1-3 and Wisdom
  • The Law and Wisdom
  • The Wisdom Literature
  • Proverbs
  • Psalms and the Song of Songs
  • Job and Ecclesiastes
  • New Testament Wisdom
  • Wisdom and Speech
  • Wisdom, Time, Suffering, and Death
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Christ and His Work

Video Lecture Series · $139

Christ and His Work

By Dr. Michael Lynch

Exploring the mystery of the Incarnation

Who do you say that Jesus is? Why did God become man? Like Jesus' disciples, we are required to assent not only to Jesus' kingdom, but to the truth of his being. Christology is at the core of the Christian faith, but confusions abound when many Christians try to make sense of…

Included lecture topics
  • Introduction to Christology
  • Old Testament Christology
  • Jesus as Christ in the New Testament
  • The Divine Nature of Jesus Christ
  • The Hypostatic Union
  • The Human Nature of Christ
  • Christology and the Divine Decree
  • The State of Humiliation: Incarnation
  • The State of Humiliation: Life on Earth
  • The State of Humiliation: Passion (I)
  • The State of Humiliation: Passion (II)
  • Models of the Atonement
  • Penal Substitutionary Atonement (I)
  • Penal Substitutionary Atonement (II)
  • The Extent of the Atonement
  • The "Descent into Hell"
  • The State of Exaltation (I)
  • The State of Exaltation (II)
  • The Twofold Kingdom of Christ
  • The Second Coming and Conclusion
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The Story of Ancient & Medieval Christendom

Video Lecture Series · $139

The Story of Ancient & Medieval Christendom

By Dr. Matthew Hoskin

Light in the “dark ages”

In this course, students will study Christian history from the post-apostolic age to the middle decades of the 1400s. Through these centuries, the body of Christ went from a small persecuted band of disciples to a nearly worldwide organisation gathering in councils to determin…

Included lecture topics
  • The Apostolic Fathers and the Second Century
  • Persecution and Martyrdom in the Early Church
  • Christianity in Alexandria: Clement and Origen
  • Constantine and the Transformation of Ancient Rome
  • The Council of Nicaea, Athanasius, and Ephrem the Syrian
  • The Council of Constantinople (381) and the Cappadocian Fathers
  • Ambrose of Milan and Augustine of Hippo
  • The Monastic Movement up to the Year 600
  • How Christianity Survived the “Fall of the Roman Empire”
  • Ecumenical Councils, 431-681
  • Gregory the Great and Missionary Monks
  • The Age of Charlemagne and the Second Council of Nicaea
  • The Eleventh Century: Eucharist and Reform
  • The Rise of the Papacy
  • Gratian's Decretum, Pope Innocent III, and the Rise of Universities
  • Francis, Dominic, and the Friars
  • The Flowering of Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century
  • John Wycliffe and the Later Middle Ages
  • Gregory Palamas and Byzantine Christianity
  • Councils, Schisms, and the End of the Middle Ages
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