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Davenant House Videos

TCI and The Davenant Trust have been working together as partners for the past few years, and we are very excited to help promote the new Davenant House project that is now underway. As a way to promote our principles and upcoming plans, we have enlisted Roman Roads Media to shoot a series of videos […]

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Prof. Pryor on Property and Contracts

Professor Scott Pryor of Regent University School of Law has posted a short response to Dr. Littlejohn’s initial essay on private property, and you can read it here. While appreciative of Dr. Littlejohn’s argument, Professor Pryor emphasizes the necessary role of contracts in property rights, and he argues that both “rights” and “right order” are […]

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TCI Contributors in the Next Reformation & Renaissance Review

A few of the regular contributors at TCI will have their work featured in the forthcoming edition of the Reformation and Renaissance Review (view the contents online here), entitled Studies on the Living Legacy of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562). This volume (15.1) is a special issue to mark the 450th anniversary of the death of the Italian […]

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Littlejohn Reviews Leithart’s Between Babel and Beast

TCI contributor Brad Littlejohn has posted a very thoughtful review of Peter Leithart’s Between Babel and Beast over at Reformation 21. Some of Mr. Littlejohn’s observations echo my own review which I posted here some time back. Especially important are these remarks: Leithart’s ecclesiology seems to suffer from the same kind of overrealized eschatology and opposition between […]

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“But now we can’t dance”

Mr Littlejohn, in this trenchant essay, very decisively turns off the dry ice machine and strobes at the ecclesiastical utopian party, and turns the regular lights on. Now, once they have recovered from Mr Littlejohn’s harshing of their mellow, said partygoers must make up their mind as to what exactly it is that they’re up […]

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Polemic Irenics

Brad Littlejohn has a helpful follow-up post to the discussion of intellectual empathy, much of which intersects with our recent post on the mechanics and motivations of polemics. It is full of excellent observations, including our favorite topic, the definition of words. Mr. Littlejohn points out that “irenic” and “polemic” are not actually opposite terms, […]

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W. Bradford Littlejohn on Mercersburg

Our friend and collaborator Mr Littlejohn is the general editor of the Mercersburg Theology Study Series, the central project of the Mercersburg Research Fellowship. The first volume, John Williamson Nevin’s The Mystical Presence and the Doctrine of the Reformed Church on the Lord’s Supper, has just been published by Wipf and Stock. The Mercersburg school […]

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Littlejohn’s Reviews of Richard Hooker

Brad Littlejohn has been consistently working in Richard Hooker studies for some while now.  He has a soon-to-be published essay on Richard Hooker’s doctrine of the two kingdoms and its relation to modern and incorrect articulations of the doctrine today.  We have critiqued these mistaken presentations elsewhere, and now Mr. Littlejohn has offered another critique of […]