"To the sources!" A journal of Protestant letters from @DavenantInst
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Today we are pleased to announce the relaunch of Ad Fontes: A Journal of Protestant Letters and the beginning of a new chapter under the leadership of Patrick Timmis as Editor-in-Chief.
“This relaunch of the publication reaches ‘back to the sources’ of the Davenant Institute and the energies that first launched 'A Journal of Protestant Letters.' Ad Fontes set out to mine the riches of the classical and Christian traditions for wisdom to face the questions we encounter today, both within the walls of our various magisterial Protestant communions and in our shared commonwealth. The aim was not antiquarian nostalgia, but the patient retrieval of truths still capable of forming free peoples and faithful churches in the service of Christ.” - Patrick Timmis.
That mission continues, with a renewed commitment to platforming a range of voices, some familiar to longtime friends of Davenant and some new, who, in their public scholarship and debate, can help advance our pursuit of wisdom as iron sharpens iron.
Here’s what you can expect:
- A quarterly journal published online and freely accessible to all
- Individual articles that are easier to read, share, and engage with
- Timely commentary and responses between issues
- Continued publication of our long-running blogs and essays
- Serious Protestant scholarship written for pastors, scholars, students, and thoughtful laymen
Explore the site or read the Spring issue now! adfontesjournal.com/
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Richard Baxter on finding our chief happiness in God in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠’ 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑡.
In Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon portrays a world bent by sin yet still open to grace.
Read the latest at Ad Fontes.
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Very pleased to announce that I have signed a contract to write a Cambridge Element volume provisionally entitled "God and the Problem of Tolerance"! 🧵
Read the full article here: adfontesjournal.com/church-s…
“Which way, American man?” The same way American liberty has always required: not inward toward the sovereign self, not upward toward the abstracted proposition, but back to the tradition, with enough honesty to acknowledge how far we have drifted, and enough confidence in its depth to believe the distance is not yet fatal.
- Read @tylerwbauer's latest at Ad Fontes: adfontesjournal.com/church-s…
In his contribution to our summer issue, @matthenryyoung argues that the First Amendment’s religious liberty is rooted in a distinctly Baptist Protestant defense of conscience that leaves ample room for robust Christian influence in public life: adfontesjournal.com/church-s…
We are pleased to announce that @Hillsdale's @heartsfortified has joined the team at Ad Fontes as Associate Editor!
You can read Jeremiah's most recent contribution to Ad Fontes in the summer issue here: adfontesjournal.com/church-s…
Call for Submissions: “Reformation, Then & Now”
Ad Fontes is now accepting submissions for our October issue on the theme “Reformation, Then & Now.”
We welcome essays, long-form book reviews, and poetry that engage the classical and Christian traditions in order to recover wisdom for the questions facing the Church and our common life today.
Send a bio and abstract to Patrick Timmis. Learn more about our submission guidelines: adfontesjournal.com/submissi…
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American Presbyterians advocated for a Christian amendment to the Constitution
see why 👇🏼
.@james_d_baird draws three conclusions about how 19th-century American Presbyterians understood Christian government & religious liberty:
1) We see convictions shared between prominent Presbyterians of various stripes: mainline and dissenters, clergy and laymen.
2) These convictions amounted to an affirmation that human governments must recognize that they are responsible to God, that Jesus Christ is their appointed ruler, and that all their civil laws must conform to the authority of Scripture.
3) These Presbyterians held to religious liberty (liberty of conscience) and the separation of church and state. But for them, neither of these principles contradicted the right of the government to instruct citizens in the Christian faith (via public schools), enforce Christian laws (like Sabbath laws), or take similar actions as a self-consciously Christian government.
Read his latest in our summer issue: adfontesjournal.com/church-s…
.@james_d_baird draws three conclusions about how 19th-century American Presbyterians understood Christian government & religious liberty:
1) We see convictions shared between prominent Presbyterians of various stripes: mainline and dissenters, clergy and laymen.
2) These convictions amounted to an affirmation that human governments must recognize that they are responsible to God, that Jesus Christ is their appointed ruler, and that all their civil laws must conform to the authority of Scripture.
3) These Presbyterians held to religious liberty (liberty of conscience) and the separation of church and state. But for them, neither of these principles contradicted the right of the government to instruct citizens in the Christian faith (via public schools), enforce Christian laws (like Sabbath laws), or take similar actions as a self-consciously Christian government.
Read his latest in our summer issue: adfontesjournal.com/church-s…
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The Real Problem with Nolan’s Odyssey adfontesjournal.com/commenta…
What does Christian faithfulness require when liberty is threatened?
@heartsfortified revisits Simeon Howard’s 1773 sermon and its case that Christians have not only a right, but a duty, to defend liberty with prudence and an eye toward the generations that follow.
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I like Gideon Rossouw's piece on Nolan's *The Odyssey* at @AdFontesJournal. adfontesjournal.com/commenta…
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Another meaningful collaboration: @AdFontesJournal, a publication of @DavenantInst, features piece by @NorthwoodU Professor Dr. Glenn Moots that examines what united Americans at the nation’s founding – and what must continue to unite them today.
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The sustained reading of Homer does at least three things a minister needs:
1) It trains the imagination
2) It forms the affective range
3) It trains judgment through speech
Gideon Rossouw gives his commentary on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey at Ad Fontes.
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.@benrcrenshaw argues that the American founding was shaped not merely by Enlightenment liberalism, but by a distinctly Protestant political tradition stretching from John Ponnet to Locke and Sidney in his contribution to our summer issue at Ad Fontes.
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