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Owen Chadwick, 20th May 1916 – 17th July 2015
By Patrick Seamus McGhee, @Patricksmcg Patrick is an MPhil student in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is currently researching atheism and unbelief in post-Reformation England. The clergyman, theologian and historian of religion Rev. Prof. Owen Chadwick died on 17th July 2015 aged 99. In a career spanning over seven decades, Chadwick was recognised…
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Healing History? The Reformation 500 years on
By Fred Smith | @Fred_E_Smith On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther (supposedly) nailed 95 criticisms of the Catholic Church to the door of a Wittenburg church. His actions, alongside those of many other ‘reformers’, helped catalyse events which would ultimately splinter Catholic Christendom into a myriad of diverse, often antagonistic, sects. Fast-forward 499 years, and there…
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Reformation parallels: the case of Gottschalk of Orbais
By Robert Evans @R_AH_Evans Five hundred years ago this October, the German monk, Martin Luther (probably) nailed his famous 95 theses to Wittenberg’s cathedral door. This sparked a lengthy and complex process of religious transformation across Europe. Luther’s views continue to have consequences for the modern world and as this anniversary approaches, there are many questions…
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‘Hither page and don my tiara’
Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles Tales of Puritan… well… puritanism, are usually a popular topic of conversation this time of year (especially among certain subsets of the population). Christmas in sixteenth and seventeenth century England was a rather sparse affair with fewer and fewer ‘lords of misrule’ and (ostensibly) more and more ‘cleaning-the-feet-of-the-poor-ers’.…
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