This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, we walk through one century of history that had an unbelievable amount of change and progress.

Even outside of church history, this evolving world was fertile soil for the Reformation.

Absolutely, and this is, like we said, just one century worth of discussion today. And yet, we'll end up having two slides for you. Two timeline slides for you. We're picking up the back end of one and the very beginning of the next.

Talking 1550 to 1650.

It's a little weird chunk, but when I originally broke up my material, this was the chunk I wanted. There was just so much stuff that happened in this 100 years that I wanted to talk about.

So you do have some visuals, you do have some pictures, if I don't find them.

Stuff does kind of bleed together a little bit, depending on what part of the world you're talking about or whatever.

Like we've talked about some of the stuff that applies to this period of history on our last episode, and I'm sure we'll have some cross conversation in future episodes as well.

You know, you have to really have to break this stuff up on fuzzy, fuzzy boundaries.

And all he does not fit into nice clean categories with breaks like we wanted to, especially like we wanted to, the two of us specifically.

All right, let's see here. And we, when I first studied church history, the Reformation, that period of like the Reformation, that is church history. Right? Like when you think church history, the Reformation for anybody who's Protestant, like that's it.

There wasn't a church before that effectively. I mean that that period of history was taught as an unbelievable time of change.

And for obvious reasons, this period of history was seen as the hinge point for the modern era. Like that's where the world really started moving towards the era that we know as modernity and the modern, the modern era.

It was one of the major peaks of the history of Christendom. I was just, it was the Reformation. Like it was the all-star moment of church history.

And I know it feels like I'm setting up a butt statement. But I actually agree with those statements. And I've come to see that those statements that were made those implications when I was learning church history.

I've even come to see those truths from a bigger and a wider angle than what I believe was even being taught to me.

Originally, I picked up this period of church history. It was taught to me through the light of the progression of Protestant Christian development.

Like, and we're, I mentioned this before in an earlier episode, we're definitely following a particular track through Christian history. At this point, we're going to follow the Protestant Reformation Protestantism.

We're going to start to follow that track. And we're not going to follow the history of Catholicism. I know we have some Catholic listeners. And that's not done to slight anybody. It's just because I'm not as familiar with those periods of history.

So you need to put together your own podcast and take us through your little wave of church history, if you will. But that's, that was, Reformation was definitely taught to me through that lens of Protestant Christian thought development.

But this development, this Christian Protestant Christian development did not just happen in a vacuum. In fact, this period of Christendom was accompanied by an unbelievably tumultuous time of cultural change that immediately followed it.

Without the Reformation, I don't believe Christianity would have survived the 200 years after it. So I'm going to say that again.

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