History of Christianity in the Reformation Era (Audiobook) | Date: 12 April 2011, 04:20
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We are the cultural descendants of the Reformation era, says Professor Brad S. Gregory in these 36 lectures on one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in all of European history.
Regardless of whether we ourselves are religious, says Professor Gregory, our modern preference for belief bolstered by doctrine is "a long-term legacy of the efforts to educate, to catechize, to indoctrinate, that began in a widespread way during the 16th century."
[b]Understanding the Martyrs[/b]
But despite these ties, it still takes a major effort of historical imagination to enter the minds of those who were willing to suffer martyrdom or martyr others for what we would regard as minor doctrinal differences.
This course is designed to take you inside the minds of those who supported the Reformation and those who resisted it. It treats the three broad religious traditions that endured or arose during these years:
[list][*]Roman Catholicism, both as it existed on the cusp of the Reformation and as it changed to meet the Protestant challenge.
[*]Protestantism, meaning the forms approved by political authorities, such as Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism.
[*]"Radical" Protestantism, meaning the forms often at odds with political authorities, such as Anabaptism.
[/list]The goal is to understand historically the theological and devotional aspects of each of these three broad traditions on its own terms and to grasp the overall ramifications of religious conflict for the subsequent course of modern Western history.
[b]Central Characters[/b]
The Reformation era produced many influential figures, including:
[b]Erasmus[/b] (c. 1466-1536): The leading Christian humanist of the early 16th century, whose "philosophy of Christ" sought the gradual moral improvement of Christendom.
[b]Martin Luther[/b] (1483-1546): An obscure monk and professor in 1517, but by the spring of 1521 he had defied both the pope and Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of his understanding of Christian faith and life. The reaction of the Church drove him to more and more radical positions.
[b]Charles V[/b] (1500-1558): Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 until 1556, and staunch defender of Catholicism and opponent of Protestantism. In 1521, he issued the Edict of Worms condemning Luther.
[b]Huldrych Zwingli[/b] (1484-1531): The reformer whose influence was responsible for the abolition of Catholicism and the adoption of Protestantism in the Swiss city of Zurich. His sharp disagreement with Luther over the nature of the Lord's Supper found dramatic expression in the Marburg Colloquy of 1529, preventing a political alliance between Zwinglian and Lutheran cities and setting the Lutheran and Reformed Protestant traditions on divergent paths.
[b]Thomas Muntzer [/b](c. 1490-1525): An apocalyptic reformer who preached violent revolution during the Peasants' War of 1525. Originally sympathetic to Luther, Muntzer progressively moved away from and ridiculed him as a panderer to princes. In 1525, he led several thousand underarmed peasants into battle at Frankenhausen, where they were slaughtered. Shortly thereafter, Muntzer was captured and executed.
[b]Henry VIII[/b] (1491-1547): The English king at whose behest the country severed its longstanding institutional links to the Roman Catholic Church and created a separate national church under royal control.
[b]Ignatius Loyola[/b] (1491?-1556): The founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), the most important Catholic religious order of the Reformation era.
[b]Jan van Leiden[/b] (1509-1536): The self-proclaimed prophet-king and ruler of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster in 1534-1535. Under van Leiden, the "New Jerusalem" practiced communal ownership of goods and polygamy. A siege finally broke the regime in 1535, and Jan was executed.
[b]John Calvin[/b] (1509-1564): The leading reformer and theologian in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is the single most important Protestant theological work of the Reformation era. Calvinism became the most dynamic, influential form of Protestantism in Europe in the second half of the 16th century.
[b]John Knox [/b](c. 1514-1572): An impassioned, uncompromising Calvinist reformer who played a leading role in the Scottish Reformation.
[b]Menno Simons[/b] (c. 1496-1561): The most influential Dutch Anabaptist leader in the wake of the ill-fated Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster.
[b]Henry IV[/b] (de Navarre) (1553-1610): The French king whose conversion from Calvinism to Catholicism in 1593 helped bring an end to the French Wars of Religion with the Edict of Nantes in 1598.
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. Early Modern Christianity—A Larger View
[*]2. The Landscape of Late Medieval Life
[*]3. Late Medieval Christendom—Beliefs, Practices, Institutions I
[*]4. Late Medieval Christendom—Beliefs, Practices, Institutions II
[*]5. Vigorous or Corrupt? Christianity on the Eve of the Reformation
[*]6. Christian Humanism—Erudition, Education, Reform
[*]7. Martin Luther's Road to Reformation
[*]8. The Theology of Martin Luther
[*]9. Huldrych Zwingli—The Early Reformation in Switzerland
[*]10. Profile of a Protest Movement—The Early Reformation in Germany
[*]11. The Peasants' War of 1524-1525
[*]12. The Emergence of Early Anabaptism
[*]13. The Spread of Early Protestantism—France, the Low Countries, and England
[*]14. The Henrician Reformation in England
[*]15. Defending the Traditional Order—Early Catholic Response
[*]16. The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Munster
[*]17. John Calvin and the Reformation in Geneva
[*]18. Catholic Renewal and Reform in Italy
[*]19. The Growth and Embattlement of Protestantism
[*]20. Calvinism in France and the Low Countries
[*]21. John Knox and the Scottish Reformation
[*]22. Menno Simons and the Dutch Mennonites
[*]23. The Council of Trent
[*]24. Roman Catholicism after Trent
[*]25. Going Global—Catholic Missions
[*]26. The French Wars of Religion
[*]27. Religion and Politics in the Dutch Revolt
[*]28. Elizabethan England—Protestants, Puritans, and Catholics
[*]29. Confessionalization in Germany
[*]30. France and the Low Countries in the 1600s
[*]31. The Thirty Years' War—Religion and Politics
[*]32. Revolution and Restoration in England
[*]33. The Impact of the Reformations—Changes in Society and Culture
[*]34. Were the Reformations a Success?
[*]35. Reflections on Religious Change and Conflict
[*]36. Expectations and Ironies
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