The Hanover Review: The Journal of the London Lyceum: 3.1: The Reformation as Renewal Symposium

Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as Renewal has been acclaimed as a “holistic, eye-opening history” that is set to be a standard Reformation text in Protestant institutions for decades to come. Therefore, the London Lyceum assembled a substantial lineup of widely respected scholars to participate in a symposium that includes a lively, rigorous, and productive discussion of the volume. Contributors include world renowned experts such as Richard Cross, Tom Ward, Mickey Mattox, Jordan Ballor, Peter Opitz, Daniel Houck, Michael Lynch, Jonathan Baddley, and Andreas Beck. The London Lyceum and Hanover Press believe this volume deserves rigorous and substantive engagement for several reasons. First, the issues addressed in the volume are important, and touch on pressing issues facing evangelical theology and the church. Second, the London Lyceum is committed to “retrieving the wisdom from analytic philosophy, the Baptist tradition, and classical Protestantism as confessed in the confessional documents of the Reformed tradition,” and as such, the thesis of the volume aligns with our own mission and values as a center committed to serious thinking for a serious church. Third, we believe that scholarship is carried out in community. Peer engagement is an essential component of academic theology, and interacting with scholars from across ecclesial and confessional traditions provides the opportunity to grow in virtues like charity, intellectual humility, and critical thinking.