A quiet reader, and a search engine for the whole tradition. Offline, with every proof, cross-reference and commentary one tap from the text.
A gift, not a purchase. It buys nothing inside the app.
The app itself
Not a study suite with a Bible in it. A book, with the study already in place.
Built in Paris at Canon Fidei by one confessional Reformed developer. Scripture first, then the confessions and creeds, then the divines.
The reader
The app will be free to use, with paid plans sold inside it through the App Store. Nothing on this page buys them: supporting the work here is a gift, and stays one.
A shelf that keeps growing
All of it offline. All 37 volumes of the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers are converted, and are being added to the app volume by volume. Then the Puritans and the medieval scholastics, added regularly.
Search, offline
Type @Owen and a word. Every place he used it comes back, each hit showing its passage. Scope it to one author, one work, or everything — with no signal.
Commentaries, one tap away
Tap a verse: Calvin and Gill on it in the same sheet, with the cross-references and the lexicon entry. More commentaries are being added.
Highlight
Underline or fill, in colours that layer instead of replacing each other. Copy a verse and it comes out with its reference attached.
Proofs in place
The 1689 with its Scripture proofs read out in full. In the catechisms, every reference opens the verse itself.
Plans and Today
One screen a day: the verse, a catechism question, a quote from the divines, and where you left off.
The authors
A growing company of divines. Each has a page: the portrait, the works, and a search box scoped to that one voice.
Puritan · OxfordIn the app
Chaplain to Cromwell, Dean of Christ Church and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, then a nonconformist pastor in London after 1662. Often called the prince of the English Puritans.
Known for
Reformer · GenevaIn the app
Trained in law at Orléans and Bourges, he left France for Geneva, where he preached, taught and wrote for most of his life. His commentaries cover nearly the whole of Scripture.
Known for
Baptist · SouthwarkIn the app
Pastor of one Southwark congregation for more than fifty years, and largely self-taught in Hebrew and the rabbinic writings. His exposition runs verse by verse through the whole Bible.
Known for
Puritan · WestminsterComing
A leading Independent at the Westminster Assembly and President of Magdalen College, Oxford. He wrote with rare warmth on the heart of Christ toward sinners.
Known for
Puritan · LondonComing
Fellow of New College, Oxford, and a preacher in Dublin before 1660, later a nonconformist pastor in London. His discourses on the attributes of God were published after his death.
Known for
Particular Baptist · SouthwarkComing
Pilloried in 1664 for a primer he wrote for children, he became pastor at Horsleydown in Southwark and signed the 1689 Confession. He argued for congregational hymn singing.
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Church Father · HippoComing
A teacher of rhetoric converted in Milan in 386, then Bishop of Hippo for more than thirty years. Few writers after the apostles have shaped Western theology as much.
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Scholastic · DominicanComing
A Dominican friar who taught in Paris, Naples and Rome, setting out the faith in the disputed questions of the medieval schools.
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Baptist · LondonComing
Pastor in London from the age of nineteen and preacher at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. His sermons were printed every week and sold in their millions.
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Dutch Reformed · AmsterdamComing
Professor at Kampen and then the Free University of Amsterdam, where he succeeded Abraham Kuyper. He restated Reformed doctrine in conversation with the whole church and with modern thought.
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The app today
What is being built next
In this order, one at a time. None of it is built, and none of it has a date.
Also on the way, in no particular order and with no dates:
What it will not be
Supporters
Named here when they give, and removed the moment they ask.
Berith Press · partner
Republishing the finest work of the First and Second Reformations, Puritan, Reformed and Covenanter. We are working together.
If you would like this to exist
The reader runs on your phone and costs nothing. The moment people can find each other there is a database, a sign-in, storage, and someone answering reports — a bill every month.
No total, no goal and no progress bar. A number in public is a promise, and this page makes none.
One payment, nothing after it. No account, no renewal, no reminder. Whatever the amount, it goes into the next month of work.
Give onceOr a little each month
Change or stop it any time from a link in your receipt. Neither buys anything.
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What supporters get: my thanks, and the work itself. Your name above, unless you would rather it were not. An honest email now and then — what shipped, what is next, what is late. And a direct line to ask for things: read, answered, never binding. That is the whole list. Anything the app can do, it does for everyone.
One email when it reaches the App Store, then a few a year about what has been built. Open to everyone, whether you give or not. Reply "stop" and you are off the list.
Give to the work.It buys no features, no early access, no badge, nothing inside Bible Standard.
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