- Est. 2015 in Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Author · Translator · Teacher
Bringing the Latin and Greek of the Reformation and the classical world to English readers
David C. Noe is a classicist and translator whose work brings Latin and Greek texts of the Reformation and post-Reformation era into clear, readable English, many of them for the first time. He earned his B.A. in Classical Languages and Philosophy from Calvin College (1995) and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Iowa (2003), with a dissertation on Cicero and the Stoics. He taught at Patrick Henry College and the University of Iowa before joining the Classics faculty at Calvin, where he served from 2007 to 2021, including three years as department chair.
His translations include Samuel Rutherford’s Arminianism, the first volume of The Works of Samuel Rutherford; John Calvin’s Duae Epistolae, published as God or Baal?; Theodore Beza’s A Clear and Simple Treatise on the Lord’s Supper; Franciscus Junius’s A Treatise on True Theology; and John Arrowsmith’s Plans for Holy War. He has also translated Brenz, Bullinger, Luther, Melanchthon, Musculus, and many others for InterVarsity Press’s Reformation Commentary on Scripture.
In 2015 he founded LatinPerDiem, which offers short, context-rich lessons drawn from 2,300 years of Latin and Greek literature, along with full courses and MasterClasses. He received the Society for Classical Studies Pedagogy Award in 2015. A longtime advocate of spoken Latin, he regularly convenes and teaches at immersive conferences such as the Colloquium Aestivum Latinum and the Biduum Baylorense. He cohosts the Ad Navseam podcast with Dr. Jeff Winkle and serves as a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Samuel Rutherford · translated by David C. Noe
Rutherford’s posthumous Examen Arminianismi (1668), a compact review of the Arminian controversy across twenty topics, from Scripture and God to the church and the resurrection.
The Works of Samuel Rutherford, vol. 1 · Reformation Heritage Books, 2026
Buy on Amazon →John Arrowsmith · co-edited with Chad Van Dixhoorn and John Bower
A Westminster Assembly divine’s Latin treatise, presented in English.
Writings of the Westminster Divines · Reformation Heritage Books, 2024
Buy on Amazon →John Calvin · translated by David C. Noe
The first English translation of Calvin’s Duae Epistolae, his two letters on fleeing idolatrous worship and on the Christian’s duty in a corrupt church.
Reformation Heritage Books, 2020
Buy on Amazon →Theodore Beza · translated and edited by David C. Noe
With an introduction by Martin I. Klauber, together with Beza’s Lex Dei and his summary of sacramental doctrine.
Reformation Heritage Books, 2016
Buy on Amazon →Franciscus Junius · translated by David C. Noe
Junius’s foundational work on the nature of theology, together with his Life.
Reformation Heritage Books, 2014
Buy on Amazon →Contributor · first English translations
Perkins’s Latin treatises on memory, including his Antidicson and Handbook on Memory (1584).
Reformation Heritage Books, 2018
Buy on Amazon →David C. Noe
A Moral Tail in Latin: an original Latin story for beginning readers.
Patrick Henry College Press, 2005
Buy on Amazon →Start with free daily lessons on YouTube, or go deeper with full courses in Latin (LLPSI) and Greek (MossMethod) and advanced MasterClasses on authors like Cicero, Calvin, and Beza.
Browse Courses Watch on YouTube Listen to Ad NavseamFor a taste of the close textual work in Dr. Noe’s advanced courses, here is a lesson on Augustine’s dialogue on teaching.
