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Resources for the work of ministry, theological study, and the church’s life of worship: topical bibliographies, a digitized archive of sermons and lectures dating to 1959, decades of Calvin Studies, and a growing library of worship materials.Resources for the work of ministry, theological study, and the church’s life of worship.
Spanning the major loci of Reformed theology, decades of Calvin scholarship, and a growing archive of sermons and worship resources gathered for the work of ministry.
Curated topical reading lists used by the seminars. Forty-three bibliographies covering Calvin, Barth, Edwards, the Reformed confessions, and the doctrinal landscape of the church.
Calvin Studies Colloquia papers, the McKee translation of the 1541 Institutes, and a Calvin’s Institutes in a Year reading plan.
Translations, republications, and original works produced under the Foundation’s imprint, including the Peter Martyr Library and selected writings of John Leith.
Sermons, lectures, and theological recordings from Dr. John H. Leith, digitized in partnership with Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Practical worship resources for elder-led congregations.
Latest additions
Each of the five collections has a different source. Every line below runs from the source to the collection it became.
The ministerial study seminars
choose their reading from
The seminars’ reading lists. Each seminar selects one bibliography each year, reads it, and gathers for a week of discussion around those texts.
The John Calvin Studies Colloquium, Davidson College, from 1982
papers published as
Papers presented at the Colloquium and collected in Calvin Studies I to XII, with the McKee translation of the 1541 Institutes.
Dr. John H. Leith, in the pulpit and the lecture hall, from 1959
recordings digitized as
His sermons and lectures, digitized in partnership with Union Presbyterian Seminary.
The Foundation’s own imprint
publishes
Translations, republications and original works, including the Peter Martyr Library and selected writings of John Leith.
Worship in elder-led congregations
is served by
Prayers for each part of the service, an order for morning prayer, and courses by Hughes Oliphant Old.
The bibliographies lead back to the seminars, where the reading is done together. How the seminars work
Find the library’s works by the theologians and scholars who wrote them.
Among the authors
Find the library’s works by theological subject and theme.
Among the subjects
Receive seminar announcements, new bibliographies, and quiet word from the Foundation a few times each year.
The Foundation’s work depends on the generosity of those who value faithful, scholarly study within the church.