Dr Alison Searle appointed Research Fellow of the Craig Center

Dr Alison Searle has been appointed a Research Fellow of the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards. Dr Searle is Associate Professor of Textual Studies at the University of Leeds. She is also the co-general editor of The Complete Correspondence of Richard Baxter (forthcoming in nine volumes with Oxford University Press) and…

New Release of digital texts from the Early English Books Online Transcription Creation Partnership

With the release of the second phase of the Early English Books Online Transcription Creation Partnership (EEBO TCP), over 400 additional works by participants of the Westminster Assembly are now freely available as digitized searchable text. This new offering adds to the nearly 400 assembly member works released in 2015 as part of TCP Phase…

The 375th anniversary of the convening of the Westminster Assembly. Read Parliament’s order to convene and John Lightfoot’s brief account of opening day July 1, 1643

Issued on 24 June 1643 and appearing in print two days later, Parliament’s order for the assembly to meet on July 1 must have imposed considerable hardships for many members living outside London given the time needed for travel and to make arrangements for what would likely be an extended absence. But few, if any,…

The complete doctrinal section of the Shorter Catechism is available through LatinPerDiem.

This resource is an invaluable tool for scholars brushing up on their Latin and those just learning. Clearly presented by Dr. David Noe, these 4 minute explanations of the Latin text of the catechism will continue to appear each week as Dr. Noe begins the catechism’s next section of questions pertaining to man’s duty to…

NEWLY RELEASED by RHB: Christ and the Law: Antinomianism at the Westminster Assembly

A new work from Reformation Heritage Books and the “Studies on the Westminster Assembly” Series. “Antinomianism was the primary theological concern addressed by the Westminster Assembly. Yet until now, no monograph has taken up the specific concerns related to antinomianism and the famous assembly. In Christ and the Law, Whitney G. Gamble sketches the rise…

Anthony Tuckney (1599-1670): Theologian of the Westminster Assembly

In this new addition to the Studies on the Westminster Assembly Series, “Youngchun Cho investigates the theology of Anthony Tuckney, an overlooked yet highly influential member of the Westminster Assembly. After a brief biography and an evaluation of Tuckney’s use of Scripture and reason, Cho shows how he related union with Christ to the doctrine…

Release of God’s Ambassadors

God’s Ambassadors: The Westminster Assembly and the Reformation of the English Pulpit, 1643–1653, by Chad Van Dixhoorn, is a new title from the “Studies on the Westminster Assembly” series published by Reformation Heritage Books. J.I. Packer, in reviewing the work, writes, “Every policy-making discussion acquires frequent speakers grinding their axes. Dr. Van Dixhoorn’s pioneering study takes…

Examine questions from the Shorter Catechism in Latin with the series offered by Latin per Diem

Visit LatinPerDiem as David Noe, Associate Professor of Classics at Calvin College, offers “daily Latin lessons in about four minutes, drawn from 2300 years of the corpus.” Recently they have added a series of lessons on the Latin translation of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Here is the first video in the series, for your enjoyment…

Release of EEBO TCP I texts into the public domain

Nearly 400 works related to the assembly and its participants are now available in the public domain as searchable digital texts. Until recently, these digital editions were limited to scholars and students of select universities hosting the Early English Book Online Textual Creation Partnership (EEBO TCP) database. The EEBO TCP is a joint university and…