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Roundheads and Cavaliers
Susannah Black Roberts reflects on 10 years of The Davenant Institute.
When Rights Go Wrong: Simone Weil on Uprootedness and the Way Forward
70 years on, Simone Weil’s “The Need for Roots” remains prescient in diagnosing modern social and political woes.
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John Ponet’s “Short Catechisme”: A Neglected Formulary?
A 1553 catechism was regarded as a foundational Church of England document. Why then has it been forgotten?
Why the Church Needs Kierkegaard
How do Kierkegaard's critiques of the church land when being anti-Christendom has become the new bourgeois faith?
Charles Hodge, Francis Grimké, and the Doctrine of Human Unity in the Critique of Race Prejudice
How did two Old Princetonians end up relating so differently to their prevailing racial norms?
Understanding Liberal Theology: An Interview with Gary Dorrien
Layne Hancock interviews Gary Dorrien, to find out what really makes liberal theologians tick.
Education Begins At Home (Sonnet CXXVII)
An original poem by Donald Williams.
From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Summer 2023
Rhys Laverty introduces the Summer 2023 print editon of Ad Fontes.
“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 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Aaron Poochigian): A Review
A new translation makes the founder of modern poetry into accessible and urgent reading.
Grammars of Grace: Dante’s Poetry of Sanctification
Phillip J. Donnelly shows how Dante invites readers to grow in holiness through their reading.