Gathers
Ministers and elders into ongoing communities of guided study.
Better Preaching, Better Teaching, Better Pastoral Care.
Recovering the historic faith
of the church.
We gather ministers into ongoing communities of guided study, for the in-depth reading and recovery of historic Reformed theology.
Our Mission
The Foundation for Reformed Theology serves the church through four ongoing acts.
Provides
For the in-depth reading and recovery of the historic faith and theology of the church.
Helps
These leaders better understand and apply that to the current life of the church.
Contributes
To building up the church of Jesus Christ today.
Geneva in the time of Calvin. Engraving by Matthaeus Merian, c. 1640.
Our Founder
A scholar's gift to the church.
Dr. John H. Leith, Pemberton Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and a leading interpreter of John Calvin, founded this work to ensure that ministers and elders would always have a place to read deeply, think carefully, and recover what the church has confessed in every age.
His vision was unsentimental and exact: that the recovery of the Reformed tradition is not a matter of nostalgia but of fidelity to the gospel entrusted to the church.
Read his storyThe Seminars
Week-long study, year after year.
Our seminars gather a small cohort of ministers and elders for a week of guided reading in the Reformed tradition. Participants return year after year, forming an ongoing community of study that few continuing-education programs can offer.
Inquiries are welcomed at any time. Dr. Richard E. Burnett, Executive Director, corresponds personally with each prospective participant.
Inquire About a SeminarFor the Church
Resources gathered over decades.
Bibliographies, sermons, lectures, and publications, freely available for ministers and serious students of theology.
Bibliographies
Curated topical reading lists used by the seminars. Nearly fifty bibliographies covering Calvin, Barth, Edwards, the Reformed confessions, and the doctrinal landscape of the church.
John Calvin Studies
Calvin Studies Colloquia papers, the McKee translation of the 1541 Institutes, and a Calvin's Institutes in a Year reading plan.
Foundation Publications
Translations, republications, and original works produced under the Foundation's imprint, including the Peter Martyr Library and selected writings of John Leith.
Sermons & Lectures
Sermons, lectures, and theological recordings from Dr. John H. Leith, digitized in partnership with Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Worship Leadership
Practical worship resources for elder-led congregations.
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