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Roundheads And Cavaliers
Sussannah Black Roberts describes her process of joining Davenant, becoming involved in its leadership, and even getting married!
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Announcing the Ad Fontes Website
A new era for Ad Fontes and The Davenant Institute.
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Announcing: The Ad Fontes Podcast!
A new weekly podcast from the writers and editors of Ad Fontes
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Inhabiting the Places of Promise: Martin Luther’s Teaching on the Three Institutions
Reflection on the institutions, on the shape of the divine promises to care for human life as revealed in Scripture, brings to light that to which our hearts cling in social and political life.
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Against the Infinite Stimulus of Greed: Martin Bucer’s Reformation of Welfare
An economy can never be viewed as amoral, and it must be assessed on its ability, not to generate private profit, but to increase the number and flourishing of the “sons of God.”
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Will All Be Saved? David Bentley Hart on Universal Salvation, Reviewed by John Ehrett
Few topics are more likely to cause a stir among Christians than universal salvation, or apokatastasis—the view that no person will ultimately experience eternal estrangement from God. Although the universalist view is difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile with the authoritative teaching of most Christian churches, it is not consistently considered heresy on the level […]
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Why We Need the Common Good
Christian morality is not ultimately instruction in how to make oneself a member of the Christian club. It is not a self-help program whose rules are adopted by a small set of people who wish to better themselves. Christian morals, rather, are simply moral teachings that agree with the natural design of the universe.
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Calvin’s Luther: Unity and Continuity in Protestantism
John Calvin: More Lutheran or Zwinglian? Everybody knows that Calvin was closer to Zurich than to Wittenberg. What this essay presupposes is: Maybe he wasn’t? In fact, Calvin was neither Zwinglian nor Lutheran in the developed sense of those terms, but rather saw himself as one who might mediate between the two sides in […]