Junius Institute Launches Digitization Project with Grant from Davenant Trust
Grand Rapids, MI (March 17, 2014)—The Junius Institute’s first digitization initiative of early modern sources gained important support today when the Davenant Trust announced a grant to create digital...
View ArticlePRDL Hits Significant Milestones
The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) hit a couple of significant milestones today. With the addition of Emmanuel Perez de Quiroga, O.F.M. (fl. 1721), we have reached 5,000 authors. And with the...
View ArticleColloquium: Digitized Research Methods for Solving Pseudonymity
To close out the first academic year of the Junius Institute Colloquium series, Dr. Ted Van Raalte of the Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary gave us an inside look at the research method pursued in...
View ArticleAnnouncing Fall 2014 Colloquium Lineup
We’re happy to announce the Fall 2014 Junius Institute Colloquium series produced in collaboration with the doctoral program at Calvin Theological Seminary. First up is Michael Lynch, a doctoral...
View ArticleUpcoming Colloquium on Junius’ Legacy
We are now midway through the Fall 2014 Colloquium series, and next up is a panel on the institute’s namesake, “Franciscus Junius and the Development of the Reformed Tradition.” The panel will feature...
View ArticleColloquium: Early Modern Hypothetical Universalism
Earlier this year Michael Lynch, a PhD student at Calvin Theological Seminary, presented at a Junius Institute Colloquium on the topic, “Early Modern Hypothetical Universalism: Reflections on the...
View ArticleMatching Funds for Digitization Project
A generous benefactor has put up $1,000 of matching funds for donations raised through the end of this calendar year. Please help us to maximize our ability to digitize early modern texts in theology...
View ArticleMuller and Helm on Jonathan Edwards
“Jonathan Edwards”. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. One of the reasons the Junius Institute exists is to help disseminate scholarship on the Reformation and post-Reformation eras,...
View ArticleColloquium: John Milton’s Hermeneutic of Parables
David Urban of Calvin College honored us by closing out the Fall 2014 Colloquium series. Here’s the audio of his presentation on “John Milton’s Hermeneutic of Parables.”
View ArticleColloquium: Franciscus Junius and the Development of the Reformed Tradition
The final session of the Fall 2014 Colloquium series was a panel on “Franciscus Junius and the Development of the Reformed Tradition,” featuring Dr. David Noe, Dr. Richard Muller, Mr. Todd Rester, and...
View ArticleSpring 2015 Colloquium Schedule Announced
We’re happy to announce the Spring 2015 schedule for the Junius Institute Colloquium series. The April Colloquium is devoted to the publication of The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From...
View ArticleStephen Hampton on Richard Muller
Two years ago, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Brill published a Festschrift for Dr. Richard A. Muller, senior fellow of the Junius Institute, co-edited by myself, David Sytsma, and Jason...
View ArticleNew Digital Companion: A Treatise on True Theology
The Junius Institute is pleased to announce the launch of a new project called “Digital Companions.” The idea for this project is to produce open-access digital editions of translations, enhanced with...
View ArticleCatching up
Opuscula Selecta hasn’t seen an update in awhile, but that doesn’t mean that the Junius Institute staff haven’t been hard at work. In fact, a great deal has happened over the last year that has kept us...
View ArticleUpdate: Todd M. Rester
The Junius Institute director Todd M. Rester has joined a research project based at the Queen’s University Belfast as a postdoctoral research fellow. The project, “War and the Supernatural in Early...
View ArticleCFP: Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law (Second Series)
Andrew M. McGinnis, a JI research fellow, serves as a general editor for the Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law (Second Series), the successor to a series I worked on. He has issued a...
View ArticleReplicating (and reconsidering) Aquinas
There remains lots to catch up on related to work of Junius Institute members, but a few recent items related to Thomas Aquinas are worthy of particular note: 1) JI research curator David Sytsma has an...
View ArticleAccessing digital sources
We recently received a query about accessing digital sources internationally. Here’s a bit of my response that may be of more general interest: First, membership in professional societies can provide...
View ArticleBeyond Dordt and De Auxiliis
This is a project that has been in the works a long time, and so I’m very happy to announce that Beyond Dordt and De Auxiliis: The Dynamics of Protestant and Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth and...
View ArticleColloquium: “The Thirty-Nine Articles and the Preservation of Reformed...
Our colloquium series has been on hiatus recently, and will no doubt be more occasional in the future. But even so, we’re happy to announce an upcoming colloquium here in Grand Rapids at Calvin...
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