diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 99ecab1..66f6528 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 * Block parsing moved to BlockBody class (#458) [Dylan Thacker-Smith, dylanahsmith]
 * Add concat filter to concatenate arrays (#429) [Diogo Beato, dvbeato]
 * Ruby 1.9 support dropped (#491) [Justin Li, pushrax]
+* Liquid::Template.file_system's read_template_file method is no longer passed the context. (#441) [James Reid-Smith, sunblaze]
 
 ### Fixed
 * Fix capturing into variables with a hyphen in the name (#505) [Florian Weingarten, fw42]
diff --git a/lib/liquid/file_system.rb b/lib/liquid/file_system.rb
index f95f644..6c4396b 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/file_system.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/file_system.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module Liquid
   # This will parse the template with a LocalFileSystem implementation rooted at 'template_path'.
   class BlankFileSystem
     # Called by Liquid to retrieve a template file
-    def read_template_file(template_path, context)
+    def read_template_file(template_path)
       raise FileSystemError, "This liquid context does not allow includes."
     end
   end
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ module Liquid
       @pattern = pattern
     end
 
-    def read_template_file(template_path, context)
+    def read_template_file(template_path)
       full_path = full_path(template_path)
       raise FileSystemError, "No such template '#{template_path}'" unless File.exists?(full_path)
 
diff --git a/performance/theme_runner.rb b/performance/theme_runner.rb
index 9b7a19a..5c959ac 100644
--- a/performance/theme_runner.rb
+++ b/performance/theme_runner.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class ThemeRunner
     end
 
     # Called by Liquid to retrieve a template file
-    def read_template_file(template_path, context)
+    def read_template_file(template_path)
       File.read(@path + '/' + template_path + '.liquid')
     end
   end
diff --git a/test/unit/file_system_unit_test.rb b/test/unit/file_system_unit_test.rb
index 02e3638..da09eed 100644
--- a/test/unit/file_system_unit_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/file_system_unit_test.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class FileSystemUnitTest < Minitest::Test
 
   def test_default
     assert_raises(FileSystemError) do
-      BlankFileSystem.new.read_template_file("dummy", {'dummy'=>'smarty'})
+      BlankFileSystem.new.read_template_file("dummy")
     end
   end