The Westminster Assembly Project is teaming up with Prof. David Noe of Calvin College to create the Westminster Assembly Texts and Translations series. Scholars in the field will know Dr Noe for his work with Latin texts by Beza, Calvin, Junius, and Perkins. Dr Noe also serves as a volume editor and translator in the new edition of the works of John Owen, now in progress.

The Texts and Translation series will be published by Reformation Heritage Books. It will feature hitherto untranslated Latin texts by Westminster Assembly members and render them in modern English. Each scholarly edition will feature introductions addressing a diverse readership and indexes for ease of access.

Translations will be executed or overseen by Dr. Noe and edited or overseen by Chad Van Dixhoorn, with John Bower serving as an additional editorial advisor. The series also enjoys an international editorial advisory board with leading scholars in the fields of history, theology and English.

This new line of texts is intended to complement the Principal Documents of the Westminster Assembly series and the Studies on the Westminster Assembly series, both of which will continue to be edited by Bower and Van Dixhoorn.

More information on the first volumes to be translated will appear shortly.

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