{"id":624,"date":"2018-03-16T14:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2018-03-16T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:34:59","slug":"update-todd-m-rester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Todd M. Rester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.1.1 | http:\/\/www.active-bits.nl\/support\/social-sharing-toolkit\/ --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\" data-via=\"JuniusInstitute\" data-text=\"Update: Todd M. Rester\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/war-and-supernature.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rester_t_edited-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"rester_t_edited\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rester_t_edited-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rester_t_edited.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The Junius Institute director Todd M. Rester has joined a research project based at the Queen&#8217;s University Belfast as a postdoctoral research fellow. The project, <a href=\"https:\/\/war-and-supernature.com\/\">&#8220;War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe,&#8221;<\/a> is a wide-ranging endeavor focused on &#8220;re-examining the relationship between faith and force in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rester <a href=\"https:\/\/war-and-supernature.com\/team\/\">is exploring<\/a> &#8220;the nature of religious war among the Franciscans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as it was often expressed within the broader structure of a Just War theory as developed from the patristic and medieval teachings.&#8221; His responsibilities include translation as well as research directed toward the production of a monograph.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth noting is the imminent release of the firstfruits of an extensive translation project that Dr. Rester has been involved in, the publication of an English-language edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prdl.org\/author_view.php?a_id=414\">Petrus van Mastricht&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Theoretico-practica theologia<\/em> (1698). The first volume, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theoretical-Practical-Theology-Intellectual-Prerequisites\/dp\/1601785593\">Theoretical and Practical Theology Volume 1: Intellectual Prerequisites<\/a><\/em>, is slated for release soon.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.1.1 | http:\/\/www.active-bits.nl\/support\/social-sharing-toolkit\/ --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\" data-via=\"JuniusInstitute\" data-text=\"Update: Todd M. Rester\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.1.1 | http:\/\/www.active-bits.nl\/support\/social-sharing-toolkit\/ --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\" data-via=\"JuniusInstitute\" data-text=\"Update: Todd M. Rester\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><\/div><p>TweetThe Junius Institute director Todd M. Rester has joined a research project based at the Queen&#8217;s University Belfast as a postdoctoral research fellow. The project, &#8220;War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe,&#8221; is a wide-ranging endeavor focused on &#8220;re-examining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.1.1 | http:\/\/www.active-bits.nl\/support\/social-sharing-toolkit\/ --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.juniusinstitute.org\/blog\/update-todd-m-rester\/\" data-via=\"JuniusInstitute\" data-text=\"Update: Todd M. 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