The Reformation as Renewal Symposium
A major academic symposium on Matthew Barrett’s celebrated volume, featuring nine leading theologians, historians, and philosophers.
The Hanover Review 3.1 brings together a group of leading theologians, philosophers, and historians for a symposium on Barrett’s celebrated volume, The Reformation as Renewal.
We believe this volume deserves rigorous and substantive engagement for several reasons. The issues addressed touch on pressing questions facing evangelical theology and the church. The London Lyceum is committed to retrieving the wisdom from analytic philosophy, the Baptist tradition, and classical Protestantism — and Barrett’s thesis aligns with our mission and values as a center committed to serious thinking for a serious church. We also believe that scholarship is carried out in community: peer engagement is essential to academic theology, and interacting with scholars from across ecclesial and confessional traditions cultivates charity, intellectual humility, and critical thinking.
9 Scholars, 9 Perspectives
Richard Cross came to Notre Dame in 2007 from Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Fellow from 1993–2007. He specializes in medieval philosophy and theology with a focus on Duns Scotus, and has published with Oxford University Press on Christology and metaphysics.
Thomas Ward is a philosophy professor at Baylor University and the author of Ordered by Love (Angelico Press), Divine Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism (Brill, 2014).
Mickey Mattox is a Catholic scholar of Martin Luther at Hillsdale College with interests in the history of biblical interpretation and ecumenical theology. He co-edited Luther at Leipzig: Martin Luther, the Leipzig Debate, and the Sixteenth-Century Reformations (Brill, 2019).
Peter Opitz is Professor Emeritus at the University of Zurich. His expertise centers on the Reformation, the theology of Ulrich Zwingli, and the leading personages of that era. His publications include Ulrich Zwingli: Prophet, Ketzer, Pionier des Protestantismus (TVZ, 2015) and Leben und Werk Johannes Calvins (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009).
Daniel W. Houck serves as senior pastor of Calvary Hill since 2018 and teaches theology at the John Leland Center for Theological Studies. He is the author of Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Jordan J. Ballor is Director of Research for the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has previously held research positions at the Acton Institute and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Covenant, Causality, and Law: A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012).
Michael Lynch teaches language and humanities at Delaware Valley Classical School and lectures in Church History at the Davenant Institute. He is the author of John Davenant’s Hypothetical Universalism: A Defense of Catholic and Reformed Orthodoxy (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Andreas J. Beck is Professor of Historical Theology and Director of the Institute of Post-Reformation Studies (IPRS) at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium). He is also Co-Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Benelux and Chair of the Classic Reformed Theology Research Group. He has published widely on medieval and early modern theology, including Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Contingency, and Freedom (Brill, 2022).