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Who’s Afraid of the Faerie Queene? Davenant Hall Course Preview

December 16, 2020

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Why study The Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser’s epic 16th century poem?

Allegory,Anthony Cirilla,Christian Literature,Christian poetry,Edmund Spenser,literature,Poetry

Retrieving John Donne: Poetic Companion for Conflicted Protestants

May 20, 2020

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Many Protestants today are conflicted Protestants. Here we stand, we can do no other—yet we feel adrift of the church’s historical doctrine and worship.

Christian poetry,literature,Poetry,Protestant,Reformed Theology,tradition

Enchanted by Story: Literature in Service of Christian Wisdom

January 10, 2020

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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.

Christian Literature,Christian Wisdom,Davenant House,literature,Regional Convivia,Regional Convivium,Theology,wisdom

The Thirteen Best Books We Read This Year

December 31, 2018

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In celebration of another year of God’s good graces to us and to The Davenant Institute, we made the possibly correct assumption that you (our readers) might be interested in knowing what books we both read and enjoyed in the previous year.

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