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Renewing Christian wisdom for the church.

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The Davenant Institute supports the renewal of Christian wisdom for the contemporary church through scholarship, education, and publishing.

Davenant Hall

Graduate-level online courses in theology, history, and ethics, equipping pastors, teachers, and laypeople in the Reformed and Protestant traditions.

Ad Fontes

A quarterly journal of Protestant letters featuring longform essays, columns, and book reviews on the Christian intellectual tradition.

Davenant Press

New editions of classic Protestant texts and original works of contemporary scholarship, preserving and disseminating the Reformed tradition.

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  • Interview: Joe Minich on his Upcoming Residential Course, “Reading the Bible and the World”

    To help give prospective students a better sense for what this class looks like and what they can expect, Joe Minich answered some questions about the course.

  • A New Property. A New Residential Fellowship.

    A new property and a new Residential Fellowship at Davenant House.

  • Education and the Kingdom of God: Convivium Irenicum 2021 Write-Up

    A write-up of the 2021 National Convivium Irenicum on “Education and the Kingdom of God”

  • Davenant’s Big Move – A Letter from the President

    A long-term base for Davenant’s work from Summer 2021

  • Pursuing Wisdom in a Time of Crisis

    As we approach the seventh anniversary of our founding, we are now poised to open an exciting new chapter in the ministry of the Davenant Institute.

  • Enchanted by Story: Literature in Service of Christian Wisdom

    The year of our Lord 2020 is underway, and it has already yielded fruit disproportionate to the days gone by at the Davenant House. On Friday, January 3rd and Saturday, January 4th, we hosted the annual Carolinas Regional Convivium. The topic was Literature in the Service of Christian Wisdom.

  • Retrieving a Sense of Belonging

    We live in an age when the most urgent question is the most fundamental question of all: “Who am I?” “Who are we?” The question of identity has been forced to the forefront, and our political and religious lives are reeling.

  • Davenant House Welcomes Michael Hughes as Director

    Three years ago, we at Davenant were blessed by the Lord with the opportunity to purchase a beautiful small retreat center property in the Blue Ridge Mountains of upstate SC, which we dubbed Davenant House. We enthusiastically sketched out a vision for a study center dedicated to the renewal of Protestant wisdom, offering residential courses, […]

  • Carolinas Convivium Recap

    Brent King reflects on an engaging weekend of fellowship and learning at Davenant House.

  • “Plainly Diabolical”: Bishop Davenant Weighs in on Clerical Celibacy

    John Davenant, as Lady Margaret Professor of Theology at Cambridge, gave a lecture in the 1610’s defending the thesis that: “Thus, marrying in the Sacerdotal Order is lawful, and the decree for its prohibition in the Church of Rome is unlawful, anti-Christian, and plainly diabolical.” In this post, I want to highlight some of the […]

Mission

The Davenant Institute brings the wisdom of classical Protestant Christianity to the Church today through books, journals, public conversation, and online learning, re-integrating Word and world for the renewal of the contemporary Church.

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