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Davenant Trust Sponsors Launch of New Reformation Study Center
The Davenant Trust has partnered with New Saint Andrews College to help launch a new Reformation study center, known as “Wenden House,” attached to the College’s M.A. program in Theology and Letters. The Wenden House project is dedicated to the retrieval of 16th- and 17th-century Reformed texts for the benefit of the contemporary church and scholars.
Davenant has pledged the funds to sponsor at least two graduate student fellowships each year, the Davenant Fellowships, for students who will work in the Wenden House program, translating Reformation texts from Latin to English and editing them for publication in scholarly editions and for free use online by Christians worldwide. Davenant Trust Vice-President J. Peter Escalante, who will also be advising Wenden House on the development of its curriculum, said of the program, “Davenant Trust is delighted to be sponsoring fellowships for two scholars in NSA’s new Wenden House translation program. The Davenant Fellows will learn and practice the art of translation as a liberal art, and with the practical aim of making Latin texts of Reformation wisdom available to the broader Anglophone public.”
A private donor has also contributed generously to the project, funding the Wenden House Project Collection of rare Reformation-era books that will be used by the Davenant Fellows in their work. “We’re very grateful for the gifts we’ve received for this initiative,” said NSA President Roy Atwood. “It’s a boon to our graduate program and opens doors for others to join us in supporting and growing this bold initiative that has such global impact.” The Wenden House Project will be supervised by College Dean and Reformation historian Ben Merkle (D.Phil, Oxford University), and plans to produce a range of short texts and treatises alongside a larger multi-year translation project.
“The Anglo-Saxon verb wenden literally means ‘to turn’ or ‘to redirect,’” explained Merkle. “Our goal will be the same: to redirect the insights of the sixteenth century into the twenty-first.”
Merkle likened the project to King Alfred the Great’s ninth century recovery of Latin volumes of early church fathers like Augustine and Gregory which were similarly left untranslated on library shelves.
Bradford Littlejohn, Davenant Trust President, added, “Few projects dovetail so perfectly with the Davenant Trust’s vision for Protestant resourcement than this new Wenden House initiative, and few institutions are better suited for it than New Saint Andrews College. We look forward to supporting it in the months and years ahead.”
The Master’s of Arts program in Theology & Letters at New Saint Andrews College is an academically-rigorous, two-year graduate program for those aspiring to be theologically-informed creative writers and/or culturally-informed theologians. Students interested in Davenant Fellowships can inquire from New Saint Andrews (208) 882-1566 and learn about the M.A. program at www.nsa.edu.
Davenant Trust Sponsors Launch of New Reformation Study Center
The Davenant Trust has partnered with New Saint Andrews College to help launch a new Reformation study center, known as “Wenden House,” attached to the College’s M.A. program in Theology and Letters. The Wenden House project is dedicated to the retrieval of 16th- and 17th-century Reformed texts for the benefit of the contemporary church and scholars.
Davenant has pledged the funds to sponsor at least two graduate student fellowships each year, the Davenant Fellowships, for students who will work in the Wenden House program, translating Reformation texts from Latin to English and editing them for publication in scholarly editions and for free use online by Christians worldwide. Davenant Trust Vice-President J. Peter Escalante, who will also be advising Wenden House on the development of its curriculum, said of the program, “Davenant Trust is delighted to be sponsoring fellowships for two scholars in NSA’s new Wenden House translation program. The Davenant Fellows will learn and practice the art of translation as a liberal art, and with the practical aim of making Latin texts of Reformation wisdom available to the broader Anglophone public.”
A private donor has also contributed generously to the project, funding the Wenden House Project Collection of rare Reformation-era books that will be used by the Davenant Fellows in their work. “We’re very grateful for the gifts we’ve received for this initiative,” said NSA President Roy Atwood. “It’s a boon to our graduate program and opens doors for others to join us in supporting and growing this bold initiative that has such global impact.” The Wenden House Project will be supervised by College Dean and Reformation historian Ben Merkle (D.Phil, Oxford University), and plans to produce a range of short texts and treatises alongside a larger multi-year translation project.
“The Anglo-Saxon verb wenden literally means ‘to turn’ or ‘to redirect,’” explained Merkle. “Our goal will be the same: to redirect the insights of the sixteenth century into the twenty-first.”
Merkle likened the project to King Alfred the Great’s ninth century recovery of Latin volumes of early church fathers like Augustine and Gregory which were similarly left untranslated on library shelves.
Bradford Littlejohn, Davenant Trust President, added, “Few projects dovetail so perfectly with the Davenant Trust’s vision for Protestant resourcement than this new Wenden House initiative, and few institutions are better suited for it than New Saint Andrews College. We look forward to supporting it in the months and years ahead.”
The Master’s of Arts program in Theology & Letters at New Saint Andrews College is an academically-rigorous, two-year graduate program for those aspiring to be theologically-informed creative writers and/or culturally-informed theologians. Students interested in Davenant Fellowships can inquire from New Saint Andrews (208) 882-1566 and learn about the M.A. program at www.nsa.edu.
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