Join us for this film viewing, lecture, and discussion as we learn from William Wilberforce and his friends to consider how they give us a historical example of holistic Christian faithfulness. How did they embrace the importance of both doctrine and piety, both justice and evangelism? And how do we apply their vision to our […]
National Convivium: "Philosophy and the Christian: Seeking Wisdom in the Light of Christ" Many are familiar with Tertullian’s ringing challenge to the Church: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” As far as this Church Father was concerned, philosophy and theology did not make comfortable bedfellows – and yet many Christians have answered his challenge […]
Intensive Course: "Theology of Friendship: Augustine and Aelred of Rievaulx" In John 15 Jesus says that he no longer calls his disciples servants, he calls them friends. When combined with the claim that Jesus himself was the divine logos–that he was in fact God–this would have been scandalous to any educated Greco-Roman audience. Yet here Jesus […]
Protestant Wisdom Foundations I: Reading the Bible and the World The Lord reveals his glory to us through what many of our fathers in the faith called his "two books": Scripture and nature. Both lie open to us: the latter sufficient to render us without excuse, the former sufficient to make us wise unto salvation, […]
Protestant Wisdom Foundations I: Reading the Bible and the World The Lord reveals his glory to us through what many of our fathers in the faith called his "two books": Scripture and nature. Both lie open to us: the latter sufficient to render us without excuse, the former sufficient to make us wise unto salvation, […]
“Law and Wisdom” “Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power, both Angels and […]
Little Platoon Seminar: Natural Law: A Living Tradition In recent decades, theologians, philosophers, and political theorists have all been rediscovering the classical doctrines of “natural law”—the conviction that underlying any just political order are fundamental norms, accessible at least in part to human reason, about the nature and purpose of humanity and the right way […]
In Christian history, the Trinity has always been the core of both the gospel and devotion. Reflecting the emphases of the New Testament, the church has always recognized that knowing and loving the Triune God stood at the heart of biblical Christianity. Yet at least in the past two centuries, the central role of the […]
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the Roman Catholic Church perceived a growing crisis of civilization wrought by secularism, rationalism, and liberalism. In response, the church sought to reassert its authority. John Henry Newman mounted a defense of the integrity of the tradition through his controversial but influential theory of doctrinal development. Vatican I […]
FREE LECTURE SERIES An Introduction to Biblical Wisdom Free lecture series, open to the public, with eminent biblical scholar Dr. Alastair Roberts. Join us for as many lectures as you’re able! Please RSVP. We will be recording this set of lectures by Dr. Roberts for use in our Davenant Hall M.Litt. program in Classical Protestantism. […]
Natural law theorists have much to say about the virtues of truth and truthfulness, and the wrong of lying. In these talks, Dr. Tollefson will focus on these virtues and wrongs first at the individual level: what reasons do individuals have to pursue truth in communication and avoid lies and dishonesty? And then in public […]
The Inklings and the Great Conversation: Friendship through Literature FEATURING DR. HARRY LEE POE February 24-25th, 2023 In the first quarter of each year The Davenant Institute hosts a Convivium on literature. The theme for 2023 is “The Inklings and the Great Conversation: Friendship through Literature.” We are pleased to have Dr. Harry Lee Poe […]