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2018 End of Year Giving As our society—and the church—increasingly succu*bs to a crisis of 2019 National Convivium Our annual Convivium Irenicu* gathering serves as a microcosm of the In Defense of Reformed Catholic Worship Must Protestants reject every hint of continuity with Rome? Or can we Philosophy and the Christian “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Since the first century, Davenant Christmas Shop All Davenant Press publications 25% OFF or more! Visit our Christmas Can we know anything about God? The deity’s traditional designation as “incomprehensible” is apt to make the unsuspecting nervous that We live in an era of cynicism and anxiety. And these phenomena are clearly related. As we have progressively replaced …Read More » The interpreter that undertakes to compare the works of Plato with the gospel must begin somewhere. Here I attempt to …Read More » In this fourth volume of an ongoing translation project by the Davenant Institute, we present Book IV of Ho*ker’s Laws, in which Ho*ker defends the legitimacy of the Church of England’s reformed catholic liturgy. Arguing that Protestants must be guided by a positive vision of the purpose of worship, and not a negative reaction to Roman Catholic practice, Ho*ker surveys common Puritan objections to traditional liturgy and finds them wanting. Along the way, Ho*ker considers how Christians should understand the Jewish ceremonial law and what Christians should do when ceremonies cause a weaker brother to stumble. Still as relevant today as when it was penned more than four centuries ago, Book IV of the Laws offers an enduring vision of moderation and respect for the past that remains forthrightly James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, is popularly known as a proponent of young earth creationism due to the insertion of dates from his biblical chronology into many editions of the King James Version of the Bible. Despite this popular portrayal, historians have