On Naming the World: A Protestant Vision for Training in Wisdom
We educate, above all, by equipping each new generation to name the world rightly.
We educate, above all, by equipping each new generation to name the world rightly.
In a world of Chaos, Peterson speaks wisdom into the whirlwind.
So I know I’ve been absolutely terrible about contributing to this blog, but I am at last ready to start making up for lost time by using this blog, at…
Earlier this month, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) dropped a bombshell: 11.9 million confidential documents revealing tens of trillions of dollars in shady financial dealings by over 400…
“‘They say,’ is the monarch of this country, in a social sense. No one asks ‘who says it,’ so long as it is believed that ‘they say it.’ Designing men endeavor to persuade the publick, that already ‘they say,’ what these designing men wish to be said, and the publick is only too much disposed blindly to join in the cry of ‘they say.’” (233)
A couple of weeks ago, President Biden announced that he was at last going to put the massive and seemingly unlimited powers of the federal bureaucracy to work in a…
Over the past eighteen months, I have been blessed to be free to pursue the vocation of a writer as very few are ever so blessed. However, since I’ve been…
Last week, I was honored by the opportunity to address the students, parents, and faculty of Greyfriars Classical School in Matthews, NC for the Convocation to mark the start of…
After a brief summer of freedom, the United States is reeling under a fresh assault of coronavirus, the India-bred Delta variant having proved more than infectious enough to overtop our…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of Sam Goldman’s very stimulating new book, After Nationalism. In the book, Goldman narrates three different conceptions of American national identity: the…
In his book The Next American Nation (1995), Michael Lind offers a damning prediction of the Evangelical Right's embrace of the politics of victimhood.
Print-only essay by Bradford Littlejohn, Spring 2021 issue (Part 1 of a series). Full text being migrated.
A DAVENANT TRUST PUBLICATION ISSUE 1.7 • MARCH 2017 ADFONTES A JOURNAL OF PROTESTANT RESOURCEMENT SIMUL JUSTUS ET PECCATOR: THE GENIUS AND TENSIONS OF REFORMATION ECCLESIOLOGY W. BRADFORD LITTLEJOHN THE…
Brad Littlejohn reviews David VanDrunen's new introduction to natural law.
Were Protestant nations really as religiously restrictive as medieval Roman Catholic ones?
Brad Littlejohn previews his upcoming Fall 2023 Davenant Hall Course, "Natural Law and Scriptural Authority"
Philip Hobday's new study of Richard Hooker demolishes tired old narratives about the great Anglican divine.
Protestantism has the peculiar resources for addressing birth-rate decline, especially when it comes to the role of fathers.
An extract from the introduction to Davenant Press's forthcoming Richard Hooker volume.
This festschrift for Robert George shows how far Protestants have come on natural law, and how much further we have to go.
21st century intellectuals are realizing, as Constantine did, that only Christianity can hold our civilization together.
Brad Littlejohn introduces Commonwealth, a new wing of Ad Fontes devoted to Protestant political retrieval.
How our army of friends grew from a blog comments section to a thriving organization
How does Scripture rightly relate to things we can deduce from nature and reason?
Brad Littlejohn reviews a new book that appreciates — but struggles to comprehend — the breadth of Early Modern Protestant political thought
Brad Littlejohn looks for the positives in an overall disappointing volume on Natural Law in the Early Modern era
A preview of a Spring 2023 Davenant Hall course on "The Reformation and the Modern World"
Brad Littlejohn reviews Robert Reilly's bizarre case for the influence of Roman Catholicism upon the American founding.
Amid current confusion and controversy, we must chart a better vision for a Christian politics.
A confused book which misunderstands the theology of one of the great Reformers
The second installment of an essay reflecting on political theology through the lens of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy.
The first of two essays reflecting on judgment and justice in conversation with Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight".
Last week, John MacArthur used his immense stature in the evangelical church to call Christians to civil disobedience. WE
An economy can never be viewed as amoral, and it must be assessed on its ability, not to generate private profit, but to increase the number and flourishing of the "sons of God."
No effort toward a “Protestant Christendom” will get airborne without the guiding lights of Hookerian nationalism and Althusian federalism.
Richard Hooker on Festival Days Translated/modernized by W. Bradford Littlejohn from the text of Book V of Richard Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. See original here. This is an article from the…
