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Library of Early English Protestantism Bundle

All nine volumes of the Library of Early English Protestantism series currently published by The Davenant Press.

See individual descriptions below.

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Richard Hooker Modernization Project

The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in Modern English (Books I-IV)

Addressing such timeless questions as the role of Scripture in the life of the Church, the relationship of conscience to authority, the appropriate use of reason and tradition in theology, and the meaning of the Protestantism’s protest against Rome, this first volume of Hooker’s Laws in Modern English promises to challenge and equip a new generation of Christian readers.

 

The Word Made Flesh for Us: A Treatise on Christology and the Sacraments from Book V of Hooker’s Laws

Continuing our modernization of Hooker’s Laws, this volume provides a masterful summary of Reformed Christlogy against Roman Catholic and Lutheran alternatives, presenting it as the historic position and explaining its relation to the sacraments.

 

A Learned Discourse on Justification in Modern English

In this short but powerful work, Richard Hooker rejects the suggestion that medieval Christians were universally condemned to Hell because of the erroneous Roman Catholic teaching on justification. In so doing, he outlines clearly what the Protestant disagreements with Rome regarding justification are and are not.

 

Thomas Traherne’s Christian Ethics

Vol. 1: The Shining Human Creature

In this new modernization—complete with a new introduction—by Colin Chan Redemer, readers can delight in this poetic and masterful seventeenth century text without stumbling over arcane language.

Traherne is less well-known than he ought to be, given his rich prose and ability to weave together theology, anthropology, and virtue ethics, all in service of Christian devotion. Traherne’s work is a revelation not only for students of the Reformation but for anyone asking foundational questions of ethics and anthropology. We are thrilled to bring what should be a Christian classic back into the Church’s awareness.

 

Vol. 2: Made Like the Maker

In this insightful and enriching second volume of his Christian Ethics, modernized by Colin Chan Redemer, Thomas Traherne delves deep into the divine paradoxes of how fallen men can “be perfect as their Heavenly Father is perfect.” He probes the realms of wisdom, righteousness, goodness, holiness, justice, mercy, faith, and hope, delineating how, through divine grace, we can be re-molded into the image of our Creator, imitating Christ and so finding true happiness.

 

Other Titles

On the Death of Christ and Other Atonement Writings by John Davenant (HARDBACK)

It is often assumed that “limited atonement” is the only Reformed view on the extent of the atonement. And yet John Davenant, one of the Anglican delegates to and signatories of the Synod of Dort, articulated an alternative and often misunderstood perspective now called “hypothetical universalism.” Now, for the first time in modern English, Michael Lynch brings readers a translation of Davenant’s masterwork On the Death of Christ, along with two shorter letters, providing vital resources to evidence the breadth of the Reformed tradition.

 

A Treatise on Christian Moderation by Joseph Hall

In the lead up to the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, tempers and tensions ran high. In the midst of this heated atmosphere, Bishop Joseph Hall issues (1574-1656) issued a called for the virtue of moderation, both in private and public matters. His arguments are richly supported from history, philosophy, and Scripture. This new edition comes with scholarly footnotes and an original introduction.

 

Jurisdiction Regal, Episcopal, Papal by George Carleton

After the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Protestants and Catholics alike wrote huge amounts on the correct jurisdictions of the crown, the church, and the Pope. Bishop George Carleton (1559 – 1628) made a decisive Protestant contribution in Jurisdiction Regal, Episcopal, Papal, outlining the Protestant view of church and state and thoroughly dismantling Rome’s spurious historical arguments for papal authority. This new edition presents the original text with a new scholarly introduction and extensive footnotes.

 

An Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel

John Jewel (1522-1571), Bishop of Salisbury, wrote his his Apology in 1562, when the Elizabethan church was still young and fragile. The work became an instant classic, and still stands as a definitive articulation of the Reformed Protestant faith’s continuity with the pre-Reformation church.

James Ussher and a Reformed Episcopal Church

James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, is popularly known as a proponent of young earth creationism due to the insertion of dates from his biblical chronology into many editions of the King James Version of the Bible. These sermons and treatises address the theme of the Church—its nature, its unity, its purity, its government, and how it must deal with difference. Combining these items together with helpful editorial notes, this volume promises to stimulate theological reflection on a theme highly relevant for the church today, especially for those within the Reformed and Anglican traditions.