- Home
- The Davenant Press
The Davenant Press
Why Do Protestants Convert?
$10.50
Authors: Brad Littlejohn, Chris Castaldo, Carl Trueman ISBN 9781949716207 Pages 100 A strange phenomenon has gripped Protestantism in recent decades: many of its best and brightest thinkers have converted to Roman Catholicism. Likewise, many earnest, normal believers have found Protestantism shallow in doctrine, history, ethics, and worshi...
On the Death of Christ: And Other Atonement Writings
$40.00
Translated and Edited by: Michael J. Lynch ISBN: 9781949716269 Pages 428 "In 'On the Death of Christ' John Davenant disentangles the doctrines of satisfaction and election, offering a sustained argument for the distinction between the sufficiency and efficiency of Christ's saving work. Alongside a biblical/theological argument is a fascinatin...
Synopsis of a Purer Theology (2 Book Set)
$63.00
Davenant Press Editors William Den Boer and Reimer A. Faber ISBN 9781949716153 Pages 856 Over the past decade, the project of Protestant resourcement has exploded, giving pastors, scholars, and lay-people access to the great thinkers who shaped their tradition. Despite this great progress, many treasures of Reformed theology remain obscu...
Natural Theology: A Biblical and Historical Introduction and Defense
$23.00
Authors: David Haines ISBN: 9781949716184 Pages 315 Christians affirm that Scripture alone reveals truths about God which cannot be known by mere reason, such as the Trinity or the Gospel itself. But how do we account for Scripture’s apparent talk of a knowledge of God possible solely from creation? Or for our own sense of the divine in nature?...
The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented
$8.70
Author: Samuel PufendorfTranslated by Theophilus Dorrington (1703)Edited and with an Introduction by Simone Zurbuchen The Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf’s basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions. This attempt to seek a “conciliation” between the confessions complements the concept of toleration discussed in Of...
Selections from Three Works
$8.70
By Francisco SuárezEdited and with an Introduction by Thomas Pink ISBN: 9780865975170 A Treatise on Laws and God the LawgiverA Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic FaithA Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) was the greatest metaphysician and moral theorist of sixteenth- and seventeenth-c...
The Principles of Natural and Politic Law
$8.70
Author:Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui Translated by Thomas Nugent (1763) Born in 1694, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui helped transform the modern tradition of natural law and convey it to new generations. Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694–1748) was a Swiss jurist.
Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society
$16.80
Author: Samuel Pufendorf ISBN: 9780865973701 Samuel Pufendorf’s Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion(published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of politics and religion. Written in response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the French king Louis XIV, Pufendorf contests the right of the sovereign to control th...
Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations
9780865975194Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations
$8.70
By Christian ThomasiusEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Thomas Ahnert ISBN: 9780865975194 Christian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius’s Institutiones j...
The Law of Nations (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)
$8.70
Author: Emer De Vattel ISBN: 9780865974517 The great eighteenth-century theorist of international law Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was a key figure in sustaining the practical and theoretical influence of natural jurisprudence through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Coming toward the end of the period when the discourse of natural law was ...
To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
$8.70
Author: Gouverneur Morris ISBN: 9780865978355 Morris served as Deputy Superintendent of Finance during the American Revolution, in which capacity he devised the system of decimal coinage. He was a prominent member of the Constitutional Convention, where he spoke more frequently than any other member and, as a member of the Committee on Styl...
Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy (set)
$38.40
Author: George Turnbull Edited and with an Introduction by Alexander Broadie ISBN: 978086597417 The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy presents the first masterpiece of Scottish Common Sense philosophy. This two-volume treatise is important for its wide range of insights about the nature of the human mind, the foundations of morals, a...
Principles of Equity
Principles of Equity
$8.70
Author: Henry Home, Lord Kames ISBN: 9780865976160 Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete “Enlightenment man,” concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a judge on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive contributions through his works on th...
The Present State of Germany
The Present State of Germany
$16.80
By Samuel Pufendorf Translated by Edmund Bohun (1696) Edited and with an Introduction by Michael J. Seidler ISBN: 9780865974920 Samuel Pufendorf’s The Present State of Germany was first published in 1667 (under the pseudonym Severinus de Monzambano) and immediately became one of the most notorious works in Europe for the next half century. Its ...
Friends of the Constitution
$21.00
Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787–1788 ISBN: 9780865971547 There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 1788, argued for the Constitution’s ratification. In a collection central to our understanding of the American founding, Friends of the Constitution brings together forty-nine of...
A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full”
9780865974944A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full”
$16.80
Author: Pierre Bayle ISBN: 9780865974944 Introduction, a note on the present translation, abbreviations used in referring to Bayle's works, annotations, appendixes, list of alterations to the 1708 translation, index. Philosophical Commentary deals with church and state, religious toleration, legal enforcement of religious practices, and religi...
Essays on Church, State, and Politics
$16.80
Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics ISBN: 9780865974982 Pages: 336 The works found in Essays on Church, State, and Politics, which originated as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a large...