http://calvinistinternational.com/2014/03/17/junius-institute-digitize-zanchis-opera-omnia/
One of those research projects I mentioned is now public. The Junius Institute is affiliated with Calvin Theological Seminary and exists to digitize and distribute 16th and 17th century works. The Davenant Trust has given them a grant to create digital editions of the complete works of Girolamo Zanchi:
One of those research projects I mentioned is now public. The Junius Institute is affiliated with Calvin Theological Seminary and exists to digitize and distribute 16th and 17th century works. The Davenant Trust has given them a grant to create digital editions of the complete works of Girolamo Zanchi:
Girolamo Zanchi (1516-1590) was a third generation reformer, an exile from Italy who taught in the Reformation cities of Strasbourg and Heidelberg. His collected works, covering 8 total volumes and nearly 4,000 pages, were published after his death and exercised a major influence on the development of Reformed thought into the seventeenth century and beyond. The Davenant Trust is sponsoring the digitization of Zanchi’s Opera omnia, providing a significant beginning to the larger initiative to digitize the significant rare book holdings at the Calvin College campus.You can read more about this project here and see a full table of contents for the opera here.
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Who's the Junius Institute named after? Back in the 17th century, one Robert Junius was the first Dutch Reformer missionary to Taiwan, which back then was under the Dutch East India Company.
Robert Junius and his successors ministered chiefly among the Siraya people who lived in the southwestern lowlands of Taiwan. The Gospels of Matthew and John were translated into Siraya, along with some of the Psalms, plus catechisms prepared and other literature.
The work was quite flourishing until 1662, when Zheng Chenggong (known as well by his title Koxinga/Guo Xing Ye/ "Master of the National Surname"), an admiral and "dry son" of the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming (1644-83) invaded to make Taiwan a base for supplying his anti-Manchu campaign and drove off the Dutch.
In the centuries after Zheng's invasion, the western plains of Taiwan became overwhelmingly southern Chinese in ethnic makeup. The Siraya language became extinct (supplanted by Minnan Chinese) by the early 20th century. However, Chinese officials of both Zheng's Kingdom of Dongning and Manchu dynasty officials who took over in 1683 noted quaint habits among the Siraya (increasingly a minority on their own land), such as writing with a quill rather than with the familiar Chinese writing brush and ceremonially washing infants shortly after birth.
While early British Presbyterian missionaries who took up work in DW Taiwan in the late 19th century discounted that the Siraya who responded to their message were "old Christians", there are Taiwanese Christians descended from the Siraya who claim their families never gave up Christianity, and responded to the 19th century missionaries because the message was familiar to them.
Who knows? You can't second-guess God's covenant faithfulness.
1. Not sure of answer to namesake.
2. Amazing story about the Siraya Churchmen.
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