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Protestant Letters
A publication of the Davenant Institute
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Homer and Vergil: A Study in Contrasts, Bounded in a Nutshell
The difference between Homer and Vergil, in one line.
Shakespeare Notebook 2023: “King Edward III”
Thoughts on oaths and loyalty in the Reformation, from a Shakespeare play you’ve never read.
“A place in the world”: The Generational Wisdom of Annie Ernaux
What does the newest Nobel Laureate for Literature have to say about the ancient question of passing things on to future generations?
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Ad Fontes Fall 2022 – From the Editor’s Desk
Senior Editor Rhys Laverty introduces the Fall 2022 Edition of Ad Fontes and asks how Christians should properly enjoy literature.
Votaries: The Blue Flower in Novalis, MacDonald, Lewis, and Robinson
Discover a forgotten influence on George Macdonald, C.S. Lewis, and Marilynne Robinson.
“And pain will be the thing that saves us”
An original poem by Tom C. Hunley
Eliot in Evangelical Americana
What happens when T.S. Eliot meets a lowbrow evangelical arts night?
The Heart Would Make Itself Known
An original poem by James Matthew Wilson
Grammars of Grace: Dante’s Poetry of Sanctification
Phillip J. Donnelly shows how Dante invites readers to grow in holiness through their reading.
After Metamodern Progenitors and Progeny
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm responds to Christian assessments of metamodernism.
After Metamodernism
If metamodernism comes after postmodernism... what then?
A solis ortus cardine
An original translation of a fifth century Latin hymn.
The Humility of the Eternal Son: Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon: A Review
Bruce McCormack's proposals ultimately do not make sense of biblical ways of talking about Christ.