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Tyndale House PodcastS9E2. A Turning Point in English History: William Tyndale’s Life and Legacy, part 2This is the second episode in our series exploring William Tyndale’s life, Bible translation, and legacy. In this episode, Tony Watkins interviews experts in the sixteenth century and the history of the Bible to explore William Tyndale’s life leading up to the publication of his New Testament in 1526. This was the first to be translated directly from Greek into English, and the first New Testament to be printed in English.We’re very grateful for contributions from:Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, and author of The Bible...
2026-02-1231 minTyndale House PodcastS9E1. The Long Road to the English Bible. William Tyndale's life and legacy, part 1This is the first episode in our new series exploring William Tyndale’s life, Bible translation, and legacy. Tony Watkins interviews experts in the sixteenth century and the history of the Bible. In this first episode, they explore the history of Bible translation prior to William Tyndale and the cultural context in which he lived and worked.We’re very grateful for contributions from:Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, and author of The Bible a Global HistoryAlec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity at the Univ...
2026-01-2934 min
Christian History Podcast NetworkBeneath the Headlines - The Age of Hitler with Alec RyrieFor the past 75 years, our culture has been more united by what we oppose than by what we believe. We don't know what we're for, but we know we're against the Nazis.This "anti-Hitler ethos" has served as society's shared moral compass, but Dr. Alec Ryrie argues this foundation is now eroding in concerning ways.In this episode, Dr. Ryrie, a professor of history of Christianity at Durham University and author of widely acclaimed books including Protestants and Unbelievers, presents a provocative thesis.Dr. Ryrie doesn't just diagnose our cultural moment—he offers a...
2026-01-2059 minBeneath the HeadlinesThe Age of Hitler with Alec RyrieFor the past 75 years, our culture has been more united by what we oppose than by what we believe. We don't know what we're for, but we know we're against the Nazis.This "anti-Hitler ethos" has served as society's shared moral compass, but Dr. Alec Ryrie argues this foundation is now eroding in concerning ways.In this episode, Dr. Ryrie, a professor of history of Christianity at Durham University and author of widely acclaimed books including Protestants and Unbelievers, presents a provocative thesis.Dr. Ryrie doesn't just diagnose our cultural moment—he offers a...
2026-01-2059 min
Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The Age Of Hitler - Alec RyrieProfessor Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and author of many books including his most recent – ‘The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It ’.Alec explains the thesis at the core of his book, and why modern history’s most notorious villain is still shaping our cultural and moral imagination.For 'The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Age-Hitler-How-Will-Survive/dp/1836390823 If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles...
2026-01-071h 05
More ChristEpisode 141: Paul Vander Klay & Alec Ryrie: A Secret History of Hitler and Secular Moral ImaginationIn this episode. I'm joined by two former guests: Paul Vander Klay and Alec Ryrie. Paul is a popular YouTuber and pastor in the U.S.A. Alec is an historian, author, and speaker. In the past, Paul and I have spoken a number of times online and I’ve got to spend wonderful times with Paul in Benburb, Galway, and the USA over the last few years. Alec and I spoke once previously about his work on Protestants and the making of the modern world, his book on doubt, atheism, and more. Here, we...
2025-11-2459 min
So We SpeakFollowing Jesus in the Age of Hitler with Dr. Alec Ryrie"A century ago, the most potent moral figure was Jesus Christ. Now it is Adolf Hitler." This bold statement from Dr. Alec Ryrie frames an exchange that has been made in our society. We know what we're against; what are we for?
In this episode, Cole speaks with Alec Ryrie about the moral landscape of the world today, the implications of what he calls the "age of Hitler," and how the church can respond.
Get a copy of Dr. Ryrie's excellent book, The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It.
2025-11-1238 min
Paul VanderKlay's PodcastAnti-Heroes Marking Apocalyptic Everything-All-At-Once Sloppy Global Us @HilaryLayne Antiheroes Are Our Only Hope https://youtu.be/gN2HDLkfi0A?si=BrHpBRkZuChrPQel
@GreshamCollege Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War - Alec Ryrie https://youtu.be/j9DDBMookVY?si=xaaYFbogK3lw7auU
@faturechi Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Nick Fuentes with FACTS and Logic https://www.youtube.com/live/v2dgXeZd04U?si=-241-Sw1Fwf-90PE
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2025-11-061h 29
Gospelbound3 Threats to Secularism in the WestIn this commentary, I reflect on my recent trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, and the broader implications of living in the post-Christendom West. Walking the ancient streets and talking to seasoned church leaders I pondered two major factors that contribute to secularism, and how Protestantism has become a victim of its own success. Yet some European countries and U.S. regions buck the secular trend. Why? Considering the story of secularism—and resilient Christianity—helps us pass down a robust, durable faith to the next generation. ———In This Episode04:00 – Faith and decadence on Copenhagen’s streets
2025-11-0456 min
Calmversationss08e13 | How Catastrophe Defines US (From Hitler to Hurricane Helene), with Jordan HallCourage in the Age of Madness | with Jordan Hall: https://youtu.be/rZcbIRP2Z2M?si=HXyatpUCujMvZ1rO"Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War" - Alec Ryrie https://youtu.be/j9DDBMookVY?si=f0JSDIOeyjLMMpKahttps://x.com/@jgreenhallSupport this channel:https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboycehttps://cash.app/$benjaminaboycehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/benjaminaboyce
2025-10-241h 59Paul VanderKlay's PodcastWorld War 2 and the Forge of America's Imperial 4 Freedom Religionhttps://x.com/jgreenhall/status/1981018105963811283
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@InterestingTimesNYT Ezra Klein Is Worried — But Not About a Radicalized Left | Interesting Times With Ross Douthat https://youtu.be/GVL69ZfvhuQ?si=QwustJ_j7Qfuv0-f
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2025-10-241h 06
Gresham College LecturesHitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War - Alec RyrieSince 1945 Hitler and the Nazis have been the Western world’s one fixed moral reference point: the way we know what evil is. But that consensus has always been more fragile than it felt, and now it is unravelling. This lecture will trace how we came to build our values around the memory of the Second World War, why that consensus isn’t enough to deal with our current predicaments – and why the resolution to all this might be more hopeful than you think. This lecture was recorded by Alec Ryrie on the 30th of September 2025 at Bernard...
2025-10-1445 min
Teologia para Vivir PodcastTinta, lágrimas y salmos: así se vivió la Reforma en la vida de la gentePaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/editorialtpv
El día de hoy hablaremos sobre el capítulo 3 del libro The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations, titulado “The nature of spiritual experience” por Alec Ryrie. Ver aquí: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-protestant-reformations-9780199646920?cc=gb&lang=en& . ¿Qué se siente creer? Este episodio abre la “caja negra” de la Reforma y sigue la brújula de las emociones: del corazón renacentista —donde razón y afectos caminaban juntos— al terremoto devocional de Lutero con su “fe sentida”, la embriaguez de la Palabra y la lucha de la Anfechtung. Explora...
2025-10-1019 min
Historically ThinkingThe Age of Hitler, and How We Shall Survive ItIn online debates, it’s almost inevitable that sooner or later someone invokes Hitler or the Nazis. That tendency, known as Godwin’s Law, has proven itself on social media thousands of times a day. But the persistence of this comparison points to something deeper than just the cheapening of argument. It reflects how much Hitler and the struggle against Nazism have become the ultimate reference point in our culture’s moral imagination.In this conversation, historian Alec Ryrie explains why we live in what he calls “the Age of Hitler.” For nearly eighty years, he...
2025-10-0827 min
Past Present FuturePPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!In today’s episode some more highlights from the PPF+ archive of 35 bonus episodes and counting: here are a few more excerpts we think you might enjoy.
In this episode you’ll hear David talking about In the Loop and the question of why politicians do and don’t resign; Robert Saunders on the legacy of Brexit for politics in 2025; Shannon Vallor on why AI is a vision not of the future but of the past; David on the appeal of High Noon for American presidents; and Alec Ryrie on the relationship between Calvinism, Puritanism and the rise and f...
2025-09-031h 01
The Civitas PodcastEpisode 33: The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It, with Alec RyriePeter Leithart and James Wood have a conversation with Alec Ryrie, the author of The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It.Alec Ryrie is professor of the history of Christianity at Durham University and a fellow of the British Academy. His previous books include Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. He lives in rural County Durham._________________To Give to Theopolis, click HERE.Get the Theopolis App, HERE.Use Code "theopolitan" to get your first month free!Sign up for In Medias Res, HERE.
2025-07-301h 12Past Present FutureThe History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free TechFor today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about the myth that technology can be value free. It’s easy to see why Silicon Valley is so keen on the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech, only of the people who use it. But why do we let them get away with it? Where did this idea come from? How has it also poisoned arguments about gun laws and nuclear weapons? And what can we do to fight it and try to get technology that works with – not agai...
2025-07-061h 01
The Church Times PodcastAlec Ryrie on The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive ItOn the podcast this week, Dr Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, talks about his latest book, The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It, an examination of society’s fixation with the Nazis and the unravelling of the post-war moral consensus today.
He argues that Adolf Hitler has replaced Jesus as the most important moral figure in the West (“we’ve replaced a positive exemplar who shows us what good is with a negative exemplar who shows us what evil is”), and how this has influenced thinking about human rights.
Professor Ryrie wishes t...
2025-07-0429 minPast Present FutureThe History of Bad Ideas: MonopolyFor today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to economic historian Marc Palen about monopoly, an idea that has always had its defenders as well as its fierce critics. Why do monopolies arise even in supposedly competitive economies? How did the anti-monopoly movement of Henry George in the late-19th century argue that the monopolists could be taken down? How are those struggles echoed in the fight against Silicon Valley monopolists today? And what has all this got to do with Monopoly the board game?
Coming on Saturday on PPF+: A bonus episode wit...
2025-07-0357 min
Not Just the TudorsWhat did Henry VIII Believe?The execution of six martyrs—three Catholics and three Protestants—on the same day, was unprecedented in Henry VIII's England. What led to this transformative event?Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the fascinating and tumultuous period of the 1530s and 1540s under Henry VIII, examining the religious, political, and personal motivations behind the seeming contradictions of Henry VIII's reformation efforts.Henry VIII's break with Rome so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn is well-known - but what did the King himself actually believe? As "Defender of the Faith", which faith was he d...
2025-03-3148 min
The Audio BrowserThe History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): Luther Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): LutherPub date: 2025-02-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday’s revolutionary thinker is Martin Luther, the man who upended the religious, political and intellectual life of Europe, maybe without entirely meaning to. David talks to historian Alec Ryrie about how a German monk took on the entire authority of the Catholic Church and survived the experience. What did he hope to achieve? Who were his p...
2025-02-1056 minPast Present FutureThe History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Scientific RevolutionToday’s episode is about a revolution that took centuries to happen if it ever really happened at all: The Scientific Revolution. David talks to historian of science Simon Schaffer about what changed in human understanding – and what didn’t – in the age of Galileo and Newton. Was the new science a revolution of ideas or of practices? What did it mean for the hold of religious and political authority? Who or what were the driving forces behind it? And did the people who lived through it realise what was happening?Out now on PPF+: David’s conversati...
2025-02-091h 05Past Present FutureThe History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): LutherToday’s revolutionary thinker is Martin Luther, the man who upended the religious, political and intellectual life of Europe, maybe without entirely meaning to. David talks to historian Alec Ryrie about how a German monk took on the entire authority of the Catholic Church and survived the experience. What did he hope to achieve? Who were his principal backers? How did he reimagine the idea of human freedom? And where is his influence most widely felt today?Out tomorrow on PPF+ a new bonus episode: David talks to Alec Ryrie about Calvin, who may ha...
2025-02-0656 minNot Just the TudorsDissolution of the MonasteriesProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the dissolution of some 800 monasteries and nunneries by King Henry VIII, a campaign that dramatically reshaped England’s landscape and society. Suzannah meets leading experts - Professor Alec Ryrie, James G.Clark and Professor Lucy Wooding - whose research has uncovered the massive transfer of property and power that left an indelible mark on England.Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.Theme music from All3Media. Other music courtesy of...
2025-01-1353 min
The Wednesday ConversationEpisode 505: The Age of HitlerWorld War II has become the dominant story of the 20th century. Just think about all the films it's inspired: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Inglorious Basterds, Oppenheimer, and hundreds more. But a recent article from Dr. Alec Ryrie poses the question: what happens to Western culture when we pivot from a positive moral exemplar (Jesus) to a negative one (Hitler)? In this episode, we engage Ryrie's article, unpacking the moral shift in our culture and exploring its implications.
2025-01-0832 min
Религия и Общество - Religiolog120 Как женщины меняли историю. Известные вольнодумки историиУвы, немногие знают, что женщины также сыграли ключевую роль в развитии вольнодумства и секулярной мысли. Они смело бросали вызов религиозным догмам, выступая за рационализм и личные свободы. В этом обзоре я расскажу о некоторых выдающихся женщинах-вольнодумках. Знаете ли вы, кто была первой современной женщиной? Кто стала первой женщиной в мире, возглавившей Академию наук? Кто писала романы и пьесы на арабском языке, став первой женщиной, сделавшей это? Кто стала первым женским голосом, призывавшим к пробуждению женщин и защите их прав в арабском мире? Кто была первой женщиной, удостоенной Нобелевской премии? Что вы знаете о первой женщине-профессоре университета? И что такое исламский феминизм? Какая женщина написала "Евангелие Атеизма"? Обо всём этом мы поговорим в сегодняшнем обзоре.
Библиография:
The Cambridge History of Atheism edited by Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse. Cambridge University Press (2021).
Stephens, Mitchell. 2014. Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World. St. Martin's Press
Alec Ryrie. 2019. UNBELIEVERS: An Emotional History of Doubt
Michael Hunter. 2023. Atheists and Atheism Before the Enlightenment.
Nick Spencer. 2014. Atheists: The Origin of the Species.
Jennifer Michael Hecht. 2004. Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson.
• Brewster, M. E. 2013. “Atheism, gender, and sexuality,” in S. Bullivant and M. Ruse (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 511-24.
• Gaylor, A. L. (ed.) 1997. Women Without Superstition: No Gods No Masters: The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, WI: Freedom from Religion Foundation.
Gaskin John. 1988. Varieties of Unbelief: From Epicurus to Sartre
2025-01-061h 08So We SpeakCole’s Best Books of SummerSummer is here and it’s time for some book recommendations! In this episode, Cole talks about the books he’s reading and recommending. From devotional books to enjoyable summer reads, there’s something here for everyone to enjoy. Next week, don’t miss Terry’s favorites for the summer.
Books in this episode:
The Pastor in Prayer - Charles Spurgeon (Banner of Truth)
Prayers on the Psalms - Introduced by David Calhoun (Part of Banner of Truth’s Pocket Puritans Series)
Reformed Systematic Theology - Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley ...
2024-06-2649 min
HistoryExtra podcastHas WW2 become a national religion?The way in which we commemorate D-Day, and other pivotal moments of the Second World War, has been making headlines in recent weeks. Alec Ryrie, professor of history at Durham University, explores why the conflict continues to hold such weight in the national psyche. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-06-1735 min
Религия и Общество - Religiolog115 Первый атеист в истории. История Атеизма.В 1617 году испанский посол подсчитал, что в Англии жило около 900 000 атеистов. Французский философ Мерсенн, писавший в 1623 году, подсчитал, что только в Париже проживало до 50 000 атеистов. Но кем были все эти люди? И кого мы можем признать первым атеистом в истории?Библиография:
The Cambridge History of Atheism edited by Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse. Cambridge University Press (2021).
Stephens, Mitchell. 2014. Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World. St. Martin's Press
Alec Ryrie. 2019. UNBELIEVERS: An Emotional History of Doubt
Michael Hunter. 2023. Atheists and Atheism Before the Enlightenment.
Nick Spencer. 2014. Atheists: The Origin of the Species.
Jennifer Michael Hecht. 2004. Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson.
Gordon Melton. 2011. Unbelief (Religious Skepticism, Atheism, Humanism, Naturalism, Secularism, Rationalism, Irreligion, Agnosticism, and Related Perspectives)
Michael J. Buckley, At the Origins of Modern Atheism (New Haven and London: Yale Uni...
2024-05-0956 min
Truth UnitesSlavery in the Bible: Answering Atheist CritiquesIn this video Gavin Ortlund responds to critiques from atheists about slavery in the Bible.
My article on the Imago Dei: https://truthunites.org/mypublications/#essays
Peter Williams' lecture on slavery in the Bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOsBQYuZ9g
Jay Sklar's Leviticus commentary: https://www.amazon.com/Leviticus-Zondervan-Exegetical-Commentary-Testament/dp/0310942187/
Alec Ryrie's Protestants: https://www.amazon.com/Protestants-Faith-That-Modern-World/dp/0670026166
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Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is President of Truth Unites and Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville.
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2024-03-261h 09
"WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, CultureWhy We're Facing another 30 Years WarPoliticians can only reference four historical moments—Civil War, Revolution, WWII, and post-1960s events. This crippling historical myopia prevents us from seeing our true position in history's cycles (100-year, 300-year, and 2000-year patterns). Our society bears SHOCKING similarities to the 1630s—politically, religiously, and economically. Even modern warfare resembles the Thirty Years' War, not WWII. The Middle East is experiencing its own "Islamic Thirty Years' War" right now.--SPONSORS:NetSuite: More than 41,000 businesses have already upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle, the #1 cloud financial syste...
2024-03-2241 min
History From the Old Brick ChurchThe English Reformation: A Series of Unintended ConsequencesIn this episode we interview Professor Alec Ryrie of Durham University in the UK on the topic of the English Reformation. England was the most diverse in its reforming efforts and the conflicts that arose in the 16th and 17th centuries would have enduring implications for Great Britain and for their Colonial possessions in North America. Professor Ryrie helps us examine this tumultuous period and its influence on our Anglo-American history. Professor Ryrie has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities in History and Theology. The focus of his research is in...
2024-01-1847 min
Mystical American Patriots SocietyS3E035: Joseph Campbell’s Conspiracy Journey with Special Guest Alec RyrieRecycling is fake, Sumo’s female environmentalist friend and sometimes there is justice in the world.Washington and Oregon are mostly deserts.Sumo talks about how crazy submarines are for a while.This is a “Meta Conspiracy” podcast for a more advanced audience.Meta Conspiracy axioms: they always have to tell you, reality is consent-based, loosh harvesting or consent farming, how narratives are created, debt-based power and spell crafting.The new Meta Conspiracy proposal, “The Weavers”.It appears that every conspiracy has been woven into a grand arch-conspiracy. The same a...
2023-11-202h 13
MYSTICAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS SOCIETYS3E035: Joseph Campbell’s Conspiracy Journey with Special Guest Alec RyrieRecycling is fake, Sumo’s female environmentalist friend and sometimes there is justice in the world.Washington and Oregon are mostly deserts.Sumo talks about how crazy submarines are for a while.This is a “Meta Conspiracy” podcast for a more advanced audience.Meta Conspiracy axioms: they always have to tell you, reality is consent-based, loosh harvesting or consent farming, how narratives are created, debt-based power and spell crafting.The new Meta Conspiracy proposal, “The Weavers”.It appears that every conspiracy has been woven into a grand arch-consp...
2023-11-202h 13
Gone MedievalHow to be an Atheist in the Middle AgesWe tend to think that it was impossible not to subscribe to Christianity in the Middle Ages. But, as in any age, belief can wax and wane. But the chroniclers of the period largely ignored the voices of ordinary people, whose faith may not have been quite so devout as we have been led to believe.In this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega talks to Dr. Alec Ryrie, author of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, which charts how atheism bloomed as a belief system in its own right.This episode...
2023-08-2938 minNot Just the TudorsThe Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed In the sixteenth century, religious beliefs underwent a dramatic change. As differences between the late medieval Roman Catholic Church and the nature of Luther's Protestantism spread across Western Europe, where you stood on points of theology could literally mean life or death. For example, what did you have to do to attain salvation? And what happened in the most holy moment of a church service, the Mass? In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the complex and fascinating ideas that people believed with Professor Alec Ryrie.This episode w...
2023-07-2454 min
Em Suma: teologia em 7 minutos43. RPG de apologética: ateísmo e agnosticismoBem-vindos a mais uma sessão de RPG de apologética! Esta série do Em Suma trata de temas complicados de apologética como se fosse um divertido jogo de RPG. Hoje recebemos algumas quests (missões) de alguns personagens que encontramos em uma taverna. Afinal, antes de defender a fé, precisamos ouvir clamor das nações e os anseios do coração humano. Perpassando diferentes variedades atuais de ateísmo e agnosticismo, a depender da geração, podemos imaginar as aventuras em que precisaremos entrar para responder a suas objeções. Rolem a iniciativa!
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2023-06-2608 minEm Suma: teologia em 7 minutos22. A Reforma causou a secularização? SimSerá que a Reforma é a o começo do fim para a civilização ocidental, o resgate do verdadeiro evangelho a partir dos escombros medievais ou algo mais complexo do que isso? Junte-se a esta minissérie de três episódios, os quais examinarão três pespectivas sobre se a Reforma casou ou não a secularização do Ocidente: sim, não e talvez. Hoje apresentamos a primeira perspectiva: o sonoro sim de Brad Gregory, historiador de Notre Dame, que alega que a Reforma é responsável pelo relativismo contemporâneo em áreas tão diferentes quanto metafísica, epistemo...
2023-01-3007 min
HistoryExtra podcastThe history of atheism: everything you wanted to knowWhen was the word “atheist” first used? How dangerous was it to question the existence of God in the Middle Ages? And how successful were communist regimes of the 20th century at stamping out religion? More than 2,000 years since the Greek philosopher Socrates was accused of atheism, Spencer Mizen speaks to Professor Alec Ryrie to answer your top questions on the history of unbelief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-2246 minNot Just the TudorsThe First Printed English BibleEngland was the only European country that completely banned translating the Bible. The dissident Lollards had produced one after the death of their hero, the radical 14th-century theologian John Wycliffe, but owning a copy could be a capital offence. When idealistic humanist William Tyndale printed his English New Testament in Germany in 1526, it became the most influential text in the history of the English language.In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Alec Ryrie, about how making the Bible accessible to English readers triggered a momentous and permanent shift...
2022-12-1242 min
The Medici PodcastEpisode 38: Mother ChurchThe Catholic Church was once the most important, omnipresent institution in Europe. Before we meet the Medici Popes, we'll delve into what exactly the Church did for the people, from providing early nursing homes to giving people one of the few shots at social mobility, and how powerful the Popes really were.
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2022-11-1420 min
The Infinite Jigsaw PodcastTIJP#44 | Prof Alec Ryrie - The History Of ChristianityIn this episode of The Wonder of Wonderful Faith series I’m joined by Professor Alec Ryrie – Alec is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham university, specialising in the history of the Reformation and of Protestantism more widely. His first book was on the early history of the English Reformation, and since then ranging further into the history of the Protestant tradition in England, Scotland and internationally. Other themes in Alec's work have been the emotional history of religion; religion and politics, war, violence and martyrdom; the history of pious practice and devotion; and histories of religious unor...
2022-07-1452 min
Gresham College LecturesProtestant Missions and European Empires: Allies or Adversaries?By the later eighteenth century, Protestant countries’ empires were spreading across the globe but Protestant churches were wriggling free of state control. What were the lessons from the early history of the missionary movement, and how did they underpin the wave of imperialism that followed? The missions’ later success depended on their increasing freedom from political control and their readiness to act independently; but also on the deep imperial assumptions they had imbibed.A lecture by Professor Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:...
2022-06-151h 01
Speaking of ShakespeareSoS #33 | Alex Ryrie: The English Reformation and ShakespeareThis is a talk with Alec Ryrie, FBA, of Durham University about the relationship between Reformation religion and Shakespeare and Marlowe. In this talk Alec reflects on drama and emotion in Protestantism during the 16th and 17th centuries in England and on purgatory, ghosts, souls, atheism, and church ritual. Alec is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He has written extensively on the English Reformation and the history and impact of Protestantism in England and Scotland and across the globe. His most recent book is ‘Unbe...
2022-05-2158 min
Gresham College LecturesThe Beginnings of Protestantism in AsiaEarly Protestant empires in Asia – in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan and elsewhere – brought missionaries with them. Like their Catholic predecessors, they learned that winning converts was formidably difficult, especially in empires that were principally commercial. As this lecture will show, some concluded that the effort was futile; others grew increasingly coercive; but others still began to explore ways of learning from and with indigenous peoples. The results, for good or ill, set patterns that still affect the region today.A lecture by Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lectu...
2022-05-1158 min
Gresham College LecturesHow Protestant Missionaries Encountered SlaveryThe entire Atlantic economy in the 17th and 18th centuries was based on the enslavement of (mostly) non-Christian Africans. As this lecture will show, slavery was at first a practice which many missionaries hoped to mitigate; then a vast reality with which they felt they had to work, and in which they were deeply implicated; until, finally, it became an intolerable obstacle. Spiritual and worldly matters could not, despite the missionaries’ best efforts, be kept apart: a lesson with enduring consequences.A lecture by Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture ar...
2022-03-151h 01
Gresham College LecturesEarly Protestant Missions to the AmericasProtestant settlers in the Americas believed it was their duty to convert indigenous peoples to the true Gospel. Yet the task proved unexpectedly difficult. The effort revealed and challenged deep European assumptions about culture and the nature of Christianity itself. From Massachusetts to Chile, Protestant would-be missionaries took roads that were paved mostly, but not entirely, with good intentions. This lecture will show where they led.A lecture by Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/protestant-americas
2022-02-0959 min
Heart of a FriendEp. 32 | Mere Christianity | Part 11 | To Go The DistanceEp. 32 | Mere Christianity | Part 11 | To Go The Distance Highlights Faith as Lewis uses it here means “spiritual tenacity.”“Faith is…a necessary virtue. Unless you teach your moods “where they get off,” you can never be a sound Christian…but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion.”“There will come a moment when there is bad news…or he’s in trouble…or is living among a lot of other people who don’t believe…or when he...
2021-12-2231 min
Gresham College LecturesSeeing God in Art: The Christian Faith in 30 ImagesLord Richard Harries has selected 30 images to convey the essential truths of the Christian faith, some ancient and some modern. Drawn from both the West and the East, a few are well-known masterpieces and others will be unfamiliar. He will discuss these with Professor Alec Ryrie, who will join in a discussion on the rich and sometimes fraught relationship between the Christian faith and the visual arts.A lecture by Alec Ryrie and Lord Richard Harries, 17 MayThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://ww...
2021-12-2044 min
Digital GnosisThe Protestant Reformation, Effects - Alec RyrieIn part two of my interview with Prof. Alec Ryrie we discuss some of the effects of the Protestant Reformation.
2021-12-171h 02Early Protestant Missions to Jews, Muslims and Pagans: A Dangerous ModelEuropean Protestant and evangelical Christians did not have to look far to find ‘infidels’ in the 16th and 17th centuries: as well as the ‘pagans’ of northern Scandinavia, Jews were scattered across the continent and Muslim powers were all too close.
This lecture will consider the repeated, and repeatedly failed, attempts to convert these peoples: some naively well-intentioned, some openly violent. Those bitter experiences would become a crucial lens through which Christians viewed global missionary projects, sometimes with unexpected consequences.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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2021-12-131h 00Digital GnosisThe Protestant Reformation, Origins - Alec RyrieIn this episode I talk to Durham University professor of History Alec Ryrie about the Protestant reformation and its origins.Consider supporting what I do by becoming a Patron: https://bit.ly/2sTITYQ
2021-12-101h 00
Gresham College LecturesEarly Protestant Missions to Jews, Muslims and Pagans: A Dangerous ModelEuropean Protestant and evangelical Christians did not have to look far to find ‘infidels’ in the 16th and 17th centuries: as well as the ‘pagans’ of northern Scandinavia, Jews were scattered across the continent and Muslim powers were all too close. This lecture will consider the repeated, and repeatedly failed, attempts to convert these peoples: some naively well-intentioned, some openly violent. Those bitter experiences would become a crucial lens through which Christians viewed global missionary projects, sometimes with unexpected consequences.A lecture by Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are availabl...
2021-12-011h 00
The ChurchNext PodcastMartin Luther: Here I StandHere I Stand.These are the historic words attributed to Martin Luther as he took a stand for the radical convictions that should have gotten him killed.However, Luther's strength of conviction and timing in history combined to set the stage for big changes on the European continent and beyond. Church historian and theologian Alec Ryrie knows all about this. In this episode, he describes Luther's theological convictions during the pinnacle events of his life: his initial persecutions among the religious leaders of his day.This episode is ideal for those who are...
2021-10-2628 min
The ChurchNext PodcastMartin Luther: Seeds of Reformation with Alec RyrieIf you’re interested in reading more about Martin Luther, look into Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton and Martin Luther: Confessor of the Faith by Robert Kolb. Online, the Project Wittenberg website has many resources by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans, including an extensive Martin Luther page. Dr. Ryan Reeves, an Assistant of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has a YouTube channel called Historical Theology for Everyone, which offers short lectures on specific aspects of Luther's life and work.If you are interested in learning more about Al...
2021-10-0532 minThe Failure of the First Protestant MissionariesIt’s usually said that Protestant and evangelical Christians made very little missionary effort in the 16th-18th centuries. In fact, there was much more than we remember. But they used strategies that look very alien to modern eyes: whether trying to spread ‘civilisation’ as a prerequisite for conversion, or seeing these efforts as part of a global apocalyptic conflict.
This lecture will introduce this series about these early missionary projects; why they mostly failed; and why they still matter.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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2021-09-2758 min
Gresham College LecturesThe Failure of the First Protestant MissionariesIt’s usually said that Protestant and evangelical Christians made very little missionary effort in the 16th-18th centuries. In fact, there was much more than we remember. But they used strategies that look very alien to modern eyes: whether trying to spread ‘civilisation’ as a prerequisite for conversion, or seeing these efforts as part of a global apocalyptic conflict. This lecture will introduce this series about these early missionary projects; why they mostly failed; and why they still matter.A lecture by Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are availa...
2021-09-2258 minEngland's Radical ReformationEngland’s Reformation was supposed to bind the nation into a single ‘Church of England’. In fact the country was shattered into a kaleidoscope of religious variety. Amid the confusion, a few English people embraced radical possibilities: mystics turned religion into an allegory, separatists created democratic, self-governing communes, utopians explored ideas ranging from pacifism to full-blown revolution.
This lecture traces how this radical edge of the English Reformation helped shape some of the most apparently secular aspects of the modern world.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College websit...
2021-06-211h 03
Gresham College LecturesEngland‘s Radical ReformationEngland’s Reformation was supposed to bind the nation into a single ‘Church of England’. In fact the country was shattered into a kaleidoscope of religious variety. Amid the confusion, a few English people embraced radical possibilities: mystics turned religion into an allegory, separatists created democratic, self-governing communes, utopians explored ideas ranging from pacifism to full-blown revolution. This lecture traces how this radical edge of the English Reformation helped shape some of the most apparently secular aspects of the modern world.A lecture by Alec RyrieThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are av...
2021-06-091h 03Seeing God in Art: The Christian Faith in 30 ImagesLord Richard Harries has selected 30 images to convey the essential truths of the Christian faith, some ancient and some modern. Drawn from both the West and the East, a few are well-known masterpieces and others will be unfamiliar.
He will discuss these with Professor Alec Ryrie, who will join in a discussion on the rich and sometimes fraught relationship between the Christian faith and the visual arts.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie and Lord Richard Harries, 17 May
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/seeing-god-in-art
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2021-05-2744 minEngland's Anglican ReformationThe English Reformation gave rise to the global Christian communion called Anglicanism: but neither immediately nor directly. This highly distinctive form of Christianity – ritualistic but nondogmatic, self-consciously moderate but staunchly nationalistic – has long been closely tied to English national identity.
This lecture asks how it came to emerge over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tracing its roots in the Reformation and showing how political chance and the traumas of civil war led to its slow and improbable ascent to dominance.
A lecture by Alec Ryrie, 21 April
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College webs...
2021-04-2855 min
Gresham College LecturesEngland‘s Anglican ReformationThe English Reformation gave rise to the global Christian communion called Anglicanism: but neither immediately nor directly. This highly distinctive form of Christianity – ritualistic but nondogmatic, self-consciously moderate but staunchly nationalistic – has long been closely tied to English national identity. This lecture asks how it came to emerge over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tracing its roots in the Reformation and showing how political chance and the traumas of civil war led to its slow and improbable ascent to dominance.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, 21 AprilThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are...
2021-04-2155 min
Gresham College LecturesEngland’s Protestant ReformationWhen England’s Reformation began, only a small band of idealists – or fanatics – truly wanted a Protestant England. Nevertheless, within a single lifetime, they achieved it. The lecture considers how the upheavals of the Tudor era led to the emergence of a genuinely new religious consciousness in England, as reformers set about rebuilding the nation’s spirit from the ground up. By their own impossibly high standards, these reformers failed; but their ‘failure’ was transformative and its consequences are enduring.A lecture by Alec Ryrie 10 MarchThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are availabl...
2021-03-1056 min
Gresham College LecturesEngland's Tudor ReformationThe English Reformation - unlike many of the other Reformations convulsing sixteenth-century Europe - was at heart more about politics and law than about religion. It created the English state as we now know it, and established relationships between the nations of Britain and Ireland which still endure. This lecture asks how a religious dispute came to rewrite the English constitution and traces that upheaval's legacies - some plain, some hidden - for England and its neighbours down to the present.A lecture by Alec Ryrie 3 FebruaryThe transcript and downloadable versions...
2021-02-0354 min
Gresham College LecturesEngland's Unwanted ReformationMost English people initially saw the Reformation as an unexpected catastrophe, wrenching their religious lives out of shape, and stripping their communities of resources they had naively believed belonged to them. This lecture looks at how this dramatic change was pushed through despite formidable opposition; how most English people eventually reconciled themselves to the new reality; and how England's persistent Catholic minority reinvented itself for a new age.A lecture by Alec Ryrie 2 DecemberThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www...
2020-12-0255 min
10-Minute TalksWhat defenders of the slave trade have to teach usThe eighteenth-century writers who tried to mount a principled defence of the slave trade look like monsters to us today - quite rightly. But before we get on our high horses to condemn them, it’s worth hearing how uncomfortably closely their arguments anticipate patterns of thought in which most of us are implicated today.Speaker: Professor Alec Ryrie FBA, Professor of the History of Christianity, Durham University; Professor of Divinity, Gresham CollegeTranscript: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/10-minute-talks-what-the-defenders-of-the-slave-trade-have-to-teach-us/
2020-10-2111 min
Gresham College LecturesEngland's Catholic ReformationEngland's Catholic Reformation is the reformation that sixteenth-century England nearly had: a reformed and renewed English Catholic Church, its new schools and revived parishes matched with a firm smack of discipline. It almost happened; its leading prophets - Cardinals Thomas Wolsey and Reginald Pole - both came close to being elected pope. Instead, as these possibilities evaporated, they left behind them a toxic residue which has poisoned England's relations with its neighbours down to the present. A lecture by Alec Ryrie 23 SeptemberThe transcript and downloadable versions of...
2020-09-231h 02
The Church Times PodcastListen again: Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch at Launde Abbey: Remembering Thomas CromwellThe Mirror and the Light, the conclusion to Dame Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, was published in March, and has since been nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was reviewed by Alec Ryrie in the Church Times here.
On this week’s podcast — taken from our archive — Dame Hilary and Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch reflect on the life of Thomas Cromwell and his place in the Reformation. They were speaking in July 2019 at an event to mark the 900th anniversary of Launde Abbey, which Cromwell was fond of visiting.
In part one, we hear pr...
2020-08-2037 min
The Harvard BriefAlec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt" (Harvard UP, 2019)In Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (Harvard University Press, 2019), Alec Ryrie, the award-winning author of Protestants offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism.Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the answer, but in this lively and startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through their hearts more than their minds.Looking back to...
2020-06-221h 07
New Books in SecularismAlec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt" (Harvard UP, 2019)In Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (Harvard University Press, 2019), Alec Ryrie, the award-winning author of Protestants offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism.Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the answer, but in this lively and startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through their hearts more than their minds.Looking back to...
2020-06-221h 07GospelboundAn Emotional History of DoubtEveryone agrees that we’re drowning under a rising tide of atheism. Right? Actually that’s how author Alec Ryrie describes early 17th century Europe. We’re talking about the century following the Protestant Reformation, a century marked by wars of religion fought between Protestants and Catholics, and civil war in England. It’s the century that gave us these words: “What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever” from the Westminster Shorter Catechism. What seems to us as an era defined by religion seemed to many at the time to...
2020-06-0933 min
Ecclesiastical History SocietyPerceptions of medicine in the medieval and early modern world (Alec Ryrie)Alec Ryrie discusses his latest publication - Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. Much attention is given to the perceptions of medicine in the medieval and early modern period, with a special treat as he reads from one of his primary sources demonstrating contemporary views.
2020-05-2635 min
Public IntellectualNew Atheists, Flat Earth, and the History of Doubt with Alec RyrieAlec Ryrie, the author of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, joins Jessa to discuss how faith and doubt operate together, skepticism as a contagion, and the legacy of the New Atheists. Support this podcast: http://patreon.com/publicintellectual http://jessacrispin.com
2020-05-1843 min
The State of UsUnbelievers and Their CounterpartsReligious, not religious, or somewhere in-between, we all have a set of beliefs. How can we better discuss faith by understanding where and when atheism originated and how it has evolved. Justin and Lance are joined by Alec Ryrie, a Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, to discuss the origins of unbelief and how everyone on the spectrum shares some commonalities. tags: tsou, religion, belief, believer, atheism, unbeliever, heresy, history, christiananity, church, philosophy, god, jesus, fate, justin weller, lance jackson, alec ryrie
2020-05-1438 min
Gresham College LecturesForgotten Victims from the Age of AtrocitySome of the atrocities of the age of Europe's religious wars immediately became notorious. The execution of tens of thousands of women and men for witchcraft, by contrast, passed largely unremarked - until modern times, when this history was revived, rewritten and wildly exaggerated. This final lecture will ask why it suits each age to select, reinvent and suppress different parts of the history of religious atrocity, and why some victims, such as Anabaptist radicals, remain neglected down to the present.A lecture by Alec Ryrie 06 MayThe transcript and downloadable versions...
2020-05-0653 min
Thinking in Public with Albert MohlerThe Emotional History of Doubt: A Conversation with Historian Alec RyrieThis is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.Sign up to receive every new Thinking in Public release in your inbox.Follow Dr. Mohler:X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.
2020-05-061h 00
Gresham College LecturesChoosing Religious Atrocities in IrelandNowhere in Europe have the wars of religion lasted longer than in Ireland. At the heart of this are two rival sets of memories of atrocities: above all, Protestants recall the massacres of the 1641 rebellion, and Catholics recall the massacres perpetrated by Oliver Cromwell in 1649. A lecture by Alec Ryrie 1 AprilThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/choosing-religious-atrocitiesGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so...
2020-04-0155 min
Gresham College LecturesThe Japanese MartyrsIn the age of exploration, Catholic missionaries fanned out across the world, meeting with extraordinary success but also extraordinary opposition: nowhere more so than in Japan, where the fast-growing Catholic community was brutally suppressed in the early seventeenth century. This lecture will explore how this bloody crisis shaped myths of Japanese cruelty and cults of Catholic sanctity in Europe, while also precipitating the 250-year 'closing' of Japan and the intense piety of a small remnant of underground Japanese Christians.A lecture by Alec Ryrie 11 MarchThe transcript and downloadable versions of the...
2020-03-1152 min
Gresham College LecturesHow to Survive a Massacre in Europe's Wars of ReligionEurope's Wars of Religion were fought against entire populations, and were punctuated by events remembered as atrocities: such as the siege of Leiden in 1573-4 or, most notoriously, the St Bartholomew's Day Massacres in France in 1572. This lecture will ask how these events came to be so notorious, how and why they were remembered on each side, and how they shaped the history of civil conflict and ideas of coexistence and nationhood in the societies that endured them.A lecture by Alec Ryrie 5 FebruaryThe transcript and downloadable versions of...
2020-02-0551 min
Don’t Miss A Thought-Provoking Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Unbelievers by Alec RyriePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/48262to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Unbelievers
Author: Alec Ryrie
Narrator: Andy Creswell
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 01-28-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 36 ratings
Genres: Atheism
Publisher's Summary:
Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear through their...
2020-01-288h 12
Gresham College LecturesHow the English Learned to Hate CatholicsMedieval England was proudly Catholic and ostentatiously loyal to Rome. But from the late sixteenth century until recent times - and even now - anti-Catholic prejudice has been a cornerstone of English and British identity. This lecture will look at how this prejudice grew out of the persecution of Protestants in the 1550s, at the idealistic historian who crystallised it, and at the political crises, real and invented, which turned his text into a paranoiacs' charter.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 20 NovemberThe transcript and downloadable versions of the...
2019-11-2049 min
Arts & IdeasWhat to BelieveRana Mitter and guests look at the history of atheism and morality. Alec Ryrie's new book 'Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt' argues that the rationality arguments for non-belief developed after congregations began to doubt the church. The Barber Institute in Birmingham begins a new exhibition into one of the more enigmatic sacred artists of c15 Antwerp, Jan de Beer. Sarah Wise has contributed a chapter on Morality to a new imprint of Charles' Booth's notorious London Poverty Maps. Jenny Kilbride lived and worked in the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic in Ditchling, Sussex where her father...
2019-10-231h 01
Gresham College LecturesEveryone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain's 'Black Legend'Spain became a byword for cruelty in much of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether it was the brutality of American colonisation, the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition or the horrors of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands. This lecture will survey this 'black legend' and ask what made it so enduring - and why some parts of the story, such as the Inquisition's genocidal campaign against Spanish Jews, received so much less attention than others.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 25 September 2019...
2019-09-2555 min
Talking TheologyAlec Ryrie - How are Protestants still changing the world?What is Protestant Christianity, and how did it start? Is Protestantism about the head or the heart? What does Protestantism look like in the world today? And what extraordinary things have ordinary Protestants done?Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, and has written extensively on the history of Protestants in the world. He was recently elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.For more about Alec Ryrie, see here.
2019-07-2237 min
Gresham College LecturesJesus, Hitler and the Abolition of GodThis series has argued that the origins of modern secularism lie in the age of the Renaissance. This last lecture will track that legacy down to the present. From Tom Paine through Bakunin to modern humanism and anti-Nazism, religion has not collapsed intellectually. Instead, religious impulses - defiance of unwelcome moral authority, the quest for ever-deeper truths, a readiness to judge churches by their own standards - have given our age a profoundly secular ethic with deeply religious roots.A lecture by Professor Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 9 May 2019The transcript and downloadable versions of...
2019-05-0951 min
Gresham College LecturesThe Spiritual Quest Against ReligionThe Protestant Reformation set out to purge Christianity of error. But once you have started, how do you know when to stop? Some radicals tore up layer upon layer of tradition in the tireless search for deeper truths, proving their faith by their refusal to believe. This lecture will track these radical quests and show how they could lead to positions like those of Baruch Spinoza or Thomas Hobbes: God may still exist but is almost wholly out of reach.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 4 April 2019The transcript and downloadable...
2019-04-0456 min
Gresham College LecturesHow to be a Puritan AtheistEarly 'atheism' did not always mean angry rejection of religion. The most earnest believers were often ones who wrestled most seriously with doubts. This lecture will look at how and why Christians in the seventeenth century first began seriously to wrestle with unbelief, whether troubled by feelings that God was absent, worries about religious variety or fear of damnation. What made these doubts so powerful was that their roots were not philosophical, but emotional.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 14 March 2019The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture...
2019-03-1447 min
Gresham College LecturesHow to be a Shakespearean AtheistVillainous atheists were, like witches, stock figures of the European imagination in the Renaissance. But when Shakespeare and his contemporaries put them on the stage, 'atheists' could be uncomfortably compelling. This lecture will explore how the sixteenth century found ways of distancing itself from religion - like Christopher Marlowe, who raged against its moral constraints, or Michel de Montaigne, a devout Catholic who cloistered his faith in one honoured corner of his life where it would not be disturbed.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 24 January 2019The transcript and...
2019-01-2448 min
Gresham College LecturesHow the Reformation Trained Us to Be ScepticsThe Protestant Reformation confronted Europeans with a clamour of religious alternatives. Catholics and Protestants taught their people to doubt the other side's religion (while still believing their own) and taught them to be incredulous while maintaining that faith is a virtue.This lecture will trace how, as Europe's religious landscape fractured, some people fell between the cracks. In long religious wars of attrition, it was all too easy to conclude that all religions were equally true, or equally false.A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 1 November 2018The...
2018-11-0149 min
Gresham College LecturesHaunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for FaithIn his new book, Haunted by Christ, Richard Harries explores the role of faith in the lives of twenty novelists and poets. Non-believers like Samuel Beckett and Philip Pullman as well as believers like T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden all struggled with faith. At a time when religions language is meaningless or feels stale for many, we can rediscover its freshness and force in the works of novelists and poets. Lord Harries will be in conversation with Alec Ryrie, the new Gresham Professor of Divinity.A lecture by The Rt Revd Lord...
2018-10-2559 min
Gresham College LecturesHow To Be An Atheist In Medieval EuropeThere was no intellectually sophisticated or articulate 'atheism' in the Middle Ages, but there was plenty of raw scepticism and incredulity. Church courts regularly heard blasphemy cases which went as far as outright denial of God.This lecture will take a tour of medieval unbelief, showing how and why some medieval people defied the powerful orthodoxies of their day: fired not by intellectual or philosophical doubts but by suspicion that 'God' was being used to swindle and manipulate them.A lecture by Professor Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 27 September 2018...
2018-09-2751 min
JourneyWithJesus.net PodcastJwJ: Sunday December 24, 2017Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Dan Clendenin. Essay by Liz Milner: *Poetry from Prison: Lifting Up the Lowly* for Sunday, 24 December 2017; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World* by Alec Ryrie (2017); film review by Dan Clendenin: *One of Us* (2017); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *BC:AD* by U.A. Fanthorpe.
2017-12-1715 min
Westminster AbbeyProtest and Liberty: How the Reformation Shaped Modern DemocracyProfessor Alec Ryrie, a historian of Protestant Christianity and Professor at Durham University, on the Protestant Reformation and democracy. #westminsterabbey #reformation500
2017-10-311h 11
The ForumThe Reformation: A World DividedFive-hundred years ago, in a remote part of Germany, a little known friar called Martin Luther set in train a series of events that led to the permanent splintering of Western Christianity. It changed the political and social landscape in a way that still resonates today all over the world. The Forum comes from Trinity Hall, part of Cambridge University in the UK, with historian professor Ulinka Rublack, professor of English Literature Brian Cummings, professor of Theology Alec Ryrie and the Reverend Daniel Jeyaraj. The British actor Simon Russell Beale reads from Luther's writings and members of the Cambridge...
2017-10-3048 min
Arguing HistoryDid the Protestant Reformation Have to Happen?In the second podcast of Arguing History, historians Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie address the question of whether the Protestant Reformation, an event which transformed Christianity in the Western world, was an inevitable event. This they do by considering the origins of the Reformation within the context of the contemporary... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/arguing-history
2017-07-2156 min
New Books in Catholic StudiesDid the Protestant Reformation Have to Happen?In the second podcast of Arguing History, historians Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie address the question of whether the Protestant Reformation, an event which transformed Christianity in the Western world, was an inevitable event. This they do by considering the origins of the Reformation within the context of the contemporary... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-07-2156 min
American Conservative University PodcastShow 1782 The Dennis Prager Show. 4 Excerpts. Single Payer Health Care, Protestants, and UnmaskingShow 1782 The Dennis Prager Show. 4 Excerpts. Single Payer Health Care, Protestants, and Unmasking Segment 1- Single Payer Health Care Dennis Prager talks to Pete Hegseth, political analyst for Fox News and frequent guest cohost of Fox and Friends. He teaches this week’s Monday release from PragerU, “Single-Payer Health Care: America Already Has It Segment 2- From Prager University Single-Payer Health Care: America Already Has It Could a single-payer, government-run health care system work in the United States? We already know the answer, because America already has single-payer, government-run health care. Author and commentator Pete Hegseth explains. To watch this Prag...
2017-04-191h 04
Start the WeekChristianity: Luther's LegacyOn Start the Week Andrew Marr looks back 500 years to the moment Martin Luther challenged the power and authority of the Catholic Church. Peter Stanford brings to light the character of this lowly born German monk in a new biography. Prior to Luther, for a thousand years the Catholic Church had been one of the greatest powers on earth, but in her study of the Italian Renaissance the writer Sarah Dunant reveals how bloated, corrupt and complacent it had become. Dunant also explores the role of the Church in the home, in a new exhibition...
2017-04-1041 min