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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Church History in Stained Glass

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Stained glass windows are not just beautiful works of art; they also teach us about our past. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols looks at the windows inside Santee Chapel at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

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Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We are on

0:03.7

location for this episode. We are standing inside the Santee Chapel at Lancaster

0:08.5

Theological Seminar and we are looking at stained glass windows. Of, these stained glass windows are replicating what we see all across the great

0:17.2

cathedrals of Europe of the Staying Glass Windows.

0:20.5

And many of those epic cathedrals use those stained glass windows to tell a story.

0:26.5

We have to remember in the middle ages, of course many people were illiterate and illiteracy was

0:31.5

widespread and so these windows could be means of telling the

0:35.1

biblical story and portraying episodes from the Bible and the biblical authors.

0:40.1

In our day we can also use some of these windows to tell the story of church history as we find in some of those

0:46.6

cathedrals but also even in churches here and in chapels here in the United States like this one.

0:52.0

Well up at the front of the church as

0:53.8

with many of those great cathedrals the images shown in these stained-glass

0:57.3

windows are depictions of the biblical events and the biblical authors. We have King

1:00.9

David there playing on a harp so we have the Psalms. We have Isaiah representing the prophets and of course we have Moses and the Pentateuc. And then we have scenes from the life of Christ. We have Christ healing and a representation of him healing, and then we have

1:18.6

the Ascended Christ as King. We also have a window depicting John and Paul and Peter, the authors there of the

1:26.4

New Testament, and then we start to move into the story of church history. The first window

1:31.6

pictures a baptism scene. This is the baptism of

1:34.9

Augustine, that great figure from the early church. Then we have St. Francis preaching

1:38.9

representing the Middle Ages with St Francis and then St. Francis is a very dramatic window of Jan Hus.

1:46.7

And it is actually depicting the martyrdom of Hus, who was burned at the stake for his faith

1:52.0

a century before the reformers a forerunner of the

1:54.9

reformation. Well that brings us to our next window and the reformers. First we have

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