Since Poland has fewer evangelical Christians than even Saudi Arabia, many Protestant primary sources from critical moments in church history—such as the Westminster Assembly—simply don’t exist in the Polish language. But as of November, a reliable Polish translation of The Westminster Confession of Faith is now available. Tolle Lege Institute in Warsaw, Poland, has just published this groundbreaking volume to introduce Polish speakers all over the world to the theology of the Westminster divines.

The Warsaw-based mission of Tolle Lege (from a Latin phrase in Augustine’s Confessions meaning “take and read”) is to offer friendly access to Reformed/Presbyterian theology, reintroduce Poland to its own forgotten Reformers, and translate classic Reformed works to Polish. The Tolle Lege study center is located on a Christian college campus and houses 8,000+ print and electronic resources. TLI’s president is Dr. Dariusz Bryćko (a native of Warsaw, former OPC member, and current mission-church planter of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Lithuania). The WCF text is translated by Mateusz Kupiec, a student of theology and director of development at Tolle Lege. It is based upon John F. Bower’s critical text published by Reformation Heritage Books in 2020. Tolle Lege is raising funds to translate the Westminster Shorter Catechism next.

Ordained Servant Online, December 2021.