Common Places

Apr 22 2024 77
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The Davenant Institute advances and renews Christian wisdom for the contemporary church. We seek to sponsor historical scholarship at the intersection of the church and academy, build networks of friendship and collaboration within the Reformed and evangelical world, and equip the saints with time-tested resources for faithful public witness.

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Finding a Christian America?

Apr 22 2024 87 mins  
A Davenant Hall Teaching Fellows lecture with Q&A by Dr. Miles Smith entitled "Finding a Christian America?" Since roughly 1980, the history of religion and particularly Protestantism in the United States has been litigated along a series of binaries: evangelical v. mainline, theocratic v. secular, liberal v. conservative. While these binaries are not artificial in themselves, they

The Jesuits Cannot Be Good Subjects: A Look at John Davenant’s Political Theology

Feb 17 2024 83 mins  
A lecture with Q&A given by Dr. Michael Lynch entitled "The Jesuits Cannot Be Good Subjects: A Look at John Davenant’s Political Theology" with respondent Dr. Glenn Moots. John Davenant is a long neglected Reformation figure, whose work on hypothetical universalism has had a renaissance. But what about his political theology? In this lecture, Davenant Hall Teaching Fellow Michael

Social Justice and National Righteousness

Feb 13 2024 62 mins  
A talk on relief for the poor and debtors in ancient Israel and beyond. Given by Scott Pryor, Campbell University Law School

Property is Preparation for the Kingdom of God

Feb 13 2024 55 mins  
The Fall Convivium's keynote lecture, given by Adam MacLeod, St. Mary’s University

How Locke’s Theory of Property Undermines Obligation to God and Exceeds Nature

Feb 13 2024 52 mins  
A talk given by Nick Higgins, Regent University

Is Modern Work Coercive? And if so, What Should We Do About It?

Feb 13 2024 69 mins  
A Panel Discussion with Brad Littlejohn and Joe Minich, The Davenant Institute

The Anticulture And The Crisis Of Metaphysics

Jan 24 2024 51 mins  
In this address from our 2024 Davenant UK Convivium on "Renewing British Political Theology", Imogen Sinclair, Director of the New Conservatives and the New Social Covenant Unit, puts Philip Rieff and Sigmund Freud into conversation in an analysis of our current political decline.

The Political Theology Of John Owen - Law, Liberty, And Government

Jan 24 2024 52 mins  
In this address from our 2024 Davenant UK Convivium on "Renewing British Political Theology", Daniel Caballero (Ph.D candidate, Queen's University Belfast) delivers an overview of John Owen's understudied political theology and considers its relevance for today.

Contemporary Politics And The Crisis Of The Spiritual Sense

Jan 24 2024 42 mins  
In this address from our 2024 Davenant UK Convivium on "Renewing British Political Theology", Dr. Graham Shearer, Lecturer in Theology at Union Theological College Belfast, draws on Augustine's famous distinction between things and signs to deliver as a diagnostic tool for the ills of modern British politics.

The Children Of This Age And The Children Of Light

Jan 24 2024 55 mins  
A lecture given at the 2024 UK Convivium by Oliver O'Donovan entitled "The Children of This Age and the Children of Light: A Biblical Apologia for Political Theology and a Critique of Its Traditional Defenders" In the keynote address of the 2024 Davenant UK Convivium on "Renewing British Political Theology", Prof. Oliver O'Donovan delivers an exposition of the Parable of the Dishon