About Us

Ad fontes, “to the sources,” was a rallying cry of the Reformation. The Reformers bequeathed to us a heritage, rooted in the Scriptures and their wide-ranging humanistic studies, which sought to address the hard questions of theology, philosophy, and culture in a way that was true to the revelation of God’s word and God’s world. Ad Fontes channels this ethos into a modern context, seeking to explore our questions alongside the great cloud of witnesses and the many exemplars who have gone before us.

Ad Fontes is a quarterly journal. Each issue features a combination of longform essays, shorter articles, historical sketches, and book reviews. This website hosts the digital versions of current issues, as well as an extensive archive of past pieces, and a wide array of non-print web exclusive blogs and articles.

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Rhys Laverty (Editor-in-Chief) holds a B.A. in English from the University of Exeter, and a GDip from Union School of Theology. Alongside Ad Fontes, he works as Managing Editor at The Davenant Press as well as being enrolled in our MLitt in Classical Protestantism. He has written for Ad Fontes, The Critic, Plough, Mere Orthodoxy, and the Theopolis Institute, and writes a regular Substack at The New Albion. He lives in Chessington, UK with his wife Libby, daughter Noah, and son Seamus. 

Michael Riggins (Books and Arts Editor) is a PhD student in English at Baylor University, specializing in Religion and Literature, specifically in the poetry and sermons of John Donne. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. 

Colin Redemer (Poetry Editor) is the Vice President of the Davenant Institute. He is a co-founder of the Davenant Hall graduate college, a fellow of the Henning Institute for Catholic Social Thought, and co-host of the weekly Ad Fontes Podcast. He holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California and is an avid reader (and writer) of poetry. His current research focuses on the moral, political, and theological implications of friendship, as well as the overlap between poetry and philosophy. 

Onsi Aaron Kamel (Editor-at-Large) is a PhD student at Princeton University. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago in the social sciences (concentrating in history), a master’s degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in theology, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago. His academic interests lie chiefly in theology, philosophy, and intellectual history. His academic writing has been published in The Scottish Journal of Theology, and his popular writing has been published in First ThingsMere Orthodoxy, and elsewhere. He lives in Princeton with his wife Elaina, daughter Nora, and son Faheem.

Alex Hibbs is a student of Religion at Furman University. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Christo et Doctrinae, a student journal of Christian thought.

Ad Fontes is a publication of The Davenant Institute

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