Forthcoming
Books to look forward to, D.V.
Theological-Political Propositions on Civil & Ecclesiastical Power + a Vindication
David & Philipp Pareus
This volume presents David Pareus’s De Potestate Ecclesiastica et Civili Propositiones Theologico-Politicae together with his son Philip Pareus’s Vindicatio, a substantial defense and explanation of his father’s political theology. David Pareus develops a distinctly Reformed account of the respective powers of church and commonwealth, the divine institution of civil government, the variety of legitimate constitutional forms, and the limits placed upon political authority. Philip’s accompanying defense situates those propositions amid the controversies they provoked and clarifies difficult questions concerning obedience, resistance, covenants, public estates, inferior magistrates, and lawful political action. Read together, these two works provide a rich father-and-son witness to the political thought of the mature Reformed tradition & to the debates over authority & resistance that shaped 17th-century Protestantism.
Diatribes on Sacred Theology, Philology, History & Philosophy
Gisbertus Voetius
Gisbertus Voetius’s Diatribes on Sacred Theology, Philology, History, and Philosophy, first collected in 1668, offer a window into the intellectual world of Reformed orthodoxy. Bringing together treatments of theology, biblical languages and interpretation, sacred history, and philosophy, Voetius asks how each field of learning should serve the study of Scripture and the formation of the Christian theologian. Along the way he surveys books, authors, methods, controversies, and questions across a range of disciplines. The Diatribes present a vision of Christian scholarship in which rigorous learning, careful judgment, and wide reading remain ordered to theology, ministry, and godliness. They reveal Voetius not merely as a polemicist, but as an architect of an integrated Reformed intellectual culture.
Faithful to the Originals.
We preserve the original words of the original authors, without censoriously and surreptitiously striking out content.