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Upcoming Colloquium on Junius’ Legacy

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Francis JuniusWe 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 comments from David C. Noe, the translator of a new publication from Reformation Heritage Books, A Treatise on True Theology, as well as JI senior fellow Richard A. Muller, who contributed a foreword to the volume. JI director Todd Rester, who is working on a translation of Junius’ On the Observation of the Mosaic Polity, will also speak, as will JI research curator David Sytsma, who will introduce a new digital companion tool developed in conjunction with the RHB publication. Calvin Seminary president emeritus James A. DeJong will serve as a moderator for the panel discussion and presentations.

Join us in the auditorium at Calvin Seminary if you are in the area on Tuesday, November 11, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm for this event, marking the publication of a major new translation of one of the most formative theological texts of the early modern period.

Announcing Fall 2014 Colloquium Lineup

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actasynodination00syno_0485We’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 student at Calvin Theological Seminary, who will be presenting on “Early Modern Hypothetical Universalism: Reflections on the Status Quaestionis and Modern Scholarship.” The colloquium will be held in the Covenant Room at Calvin Theological Seminary on Friday, September 12, 2014, from 1pm-3pm.

Other topics in this Fall’s series include the institute’s namesake, Franciscus Junius, as well as the Puritan Thomas Goodwin and John Milton.

Colloquium: Digitized Research Methods for Solving Pseudonymity

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Noster TheophilusTo 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 his discovery of the identities behind a pseudonymous publisher in the 1580s. His findings were published as “‘Noster Theophilus’: The Fictitious ‘Printer’ Whose Anti-Jesuit Volumes Issued from Various Presses in Geneva between 1580 and 1589,” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 74, no. 3 (2012): 569-91.

Here is a screencast of Dr. Van Raalte’s presentation from May 9, 2013, “Digitized Research Methods for Solving Pseudonymity: A New Discovery of Ten Volumes Printed under a Fictitious Name and Place in the 1580s.”

And for those with a deeper interest in these sorts of studies, the journal Quarendo has recently published an investigation of the identity of Spinoza’s printer.

Colloquium: The Synod of Dordrecht Project

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Dr. Donald Sinnema

Dr. Donald Sinnema

Last month Dr. Donald Sinnema, one of the general editors of the Synod of Dordrecht project, presented at the Junius Institute Colloquium on “The Project to Publish a Critical Edition of the Documents of the Synod of Dordt, 1618-19.”

Dr. Sinnema is a professor of theology emeritus at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. His main field of scholarship is historical theology, with a focus on Post-Reformation studies. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the Synod of Dordt, and he is currently one of three general editors working on producing a nine volume critical edition of all the documents of the Synod of Dordt (1618-19).

ReforcAs the project describes, “Alongside the Westminster Assembly (1643-1649), the Synod of Dordrecht is one of the most important church councils in the history of the reformed tradition.” Moreover, “The goal of the edition project is to produce a critical edition of all the documents of the Synod of Dordrecht in their original languages (predominantly Latin, but some in Dutch, English, German and French) by an international team of institutions and scholars, mostly partners of Refo500. This critical edition will be published by publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht as a multi-volume series, and will be made available in digital format as well.”

A screencast of Dr. Sinnema’s presentation with audio is embedded below. More information about the project is available at the Refo500 website, where interested scholars can find more details about how to get involved.

CFP for SCSC 2014

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The call for papers is out for this year’s meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference to be held in New Orleans, October 16-19, 2014.

Of special note is a CFP for “Early Modern + Digital Projects and Computational Methods.” I have been pleased to see a slow development in recent years of digitally-themed presentations and panels at SCSC, and this CFP promises to help continue that positive momentum.

Be sure to check out the “Call For Papers, Panels and Posters,” and stay tuned for details on presentation plans for a session or two sponsored by the Junius Institute.