Colvinism

Who is this man?
Matt Colvin is the husband of Sora Colvin with whom he has 6 children. He is an ordained presbyter in the Reformed Episcopal Church and ACNA. He holds a PhD in Latin and Greek literature from Cornell University, and has taught classical languages and literature for 20 years. He has also published articles on Greek philosophy (Heraclitus, Plato, and the Stoics) in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and The Classical Quarterly. He has translated the 1550 Magdeburg Confession of Nicholaus von Amsdorff into English. In his spare time, he does calligraphy (see his work here) and reads Biblical studies.

What is he doing?
After five years as a missionary in SE Asia, Matt is now teaching Greek and upper-level Latin at Wilson Hill Academy. He is the author of The Lost Supper, which argues that Jesus used an existing bread-ritual from the Jewish Passover to identify himself as the Messiah to his disciples in the Upper Room. He is currently writing another book on the origins of ordination and the question of the ordination of women, and is translating a previously untranslated treatise of John Calvin on the duty of the civil magistrate to suppress heresy.  He is married to Sora, who is a registered midwife in British Columbia. Sora blogs about midwifery at Puah’s Corner, and both Matt and Sora contributed to Receive with Meekness, a blog about their missionary work.

What does he love?
Matt loves the Bible and the Book of Common prayer. He enjoys reading fiction aloud with his wife, playing games with his sons, and teasing his two littlest girls. He loves contract bridge and 6-hand euchre, tennis and ping-pong, J.S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, Jamie Soles and the Clancy Brothers, Ingres and Helmantel. Matt’s theology is influenced by Peter Leithart, N.T. Wright, and David Daube. His favorite fiction authors are Sigrid Undset, Dorothy Sayers, and J.R.R. Tolkien.