Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast for an installment of off-campus conversations, where I follow up with a Temistic Institute speaker on some theme of mutual interest.

So for this episode, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Brad Gregory of the University

of Notre Dame.

Thanks so much for joining.

Thanks for asking me to be here.

Hey.

So a lot of folks will know you, especially from the unintended Reformation, which came out

now maybe 10, 12 years ago?

Yeah, 2012.

Okay.

But perhaps they might know you from interventions that you made at Timistic Institute campuses

or the lectures that have been posted on the TI podcast.

But for those who don't know you, could you say a word of introduction, who you are?

Sure. I am a professor of primarily early modern European history at the University of Notre Dame.

My interests range widely, and the current project that I'm working on ranges much, much more

widely than that. But I'm trained primarily as a scholar of early modern

Christianity. I've been at Notre Dame now for 20 years. Before that, I taught for seven years at

Stanford and proceeded to shock my colleagues after getting tenure there by leaving for South Bend because the culinary and cultural offerings in South Bend are so much better in the Bay Area.

No, not really. But anyway, that's a little bit about who I am intellectually, academically, biographically. I don't, I'll say more if you want me to but I'm a cyclist.

I have a lot of books like most scholars.

So in any case, yeah, I had moved into my office up until recently and I would record

something from time to time in this office with my empty shelves. And people would,

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