Reforming the sacraments, with Jennifer Powell McNutt [MIPodcast #68]

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Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Martin Luther believed the Bible proved that the Catholic Church had gone astray. His efforts to bring reform to the church wound up leading to his excommunication and the Reformation was off and running. In the previous two episodes we heard from Craig Harline and Brad Gregory, talking about Martin Luther’s life and the Reformation more broadly. In this episode, Jennifer Powell McNutt talks about the Bible during the Reformation. If Protestants believed the Bible was the supreme source of doctrinal truth, they, like Catholics, were still left with the problem of how to interpret it. The “people’s book” was revered by different people with different ways of interpreting. McNutt has written about how Christians grappled with the Bible’s words about Christian sacraments like baptism, marriage, and ordination. She lays out some of that back-and-forth history here, and also talks about her experiences teaching Christian students at Wheaton College. About the Guest

Jennifer Powell McNuttis associate professor of theology and history of Christianity at Wheaton College. She is the author of Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, and the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation. Her most recent book is called The Peoples Book: The Reformation and the Bible.

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0:00.0	It's the Maxwell Institute podcast.
0:04.2	I'm Blair Hodges.
0:06.2	Martin Luther believed the Bible proved that the Catholic Church had gone astray.
0:10.2	His efforts to bring reform to the church wound up leading to his own excommunication,
0:14.3	and the Reformation was often running.
0:15.9	In the previous two episodes, we heard from Craig Harleen and Brad Gregory.
0:19.8	They talked about Martin Luther's life and the Reformation more broadly.
0:23.3	In this episode, Jennifer Powell McNutt talks about the Bible during the Reformation.
0:27.8	If Protestants believed that the Bible was the best source of doctrinal truth, they
0:32.0	were still left with a problem of how to read it, how to interpret it.
0:35.8	For example, the Bible didn't solve all disagreements
0:38.3	among Protestants about church sacraments like baptism, marriage, and ordination.
0:43.3	Jennifer Powell McNutt is an associate professor of theology and history of Christianity at Wheaton College,
0:49.3	a Protestant school with a Christian student body.
0:52.3	Jennifer and I spend a little time talking about what
0:54.3	it's like teaching at Wheaton and how Christian history can sometimes unsettle people in their
0:58.7	faith. What's it like studying about Christianity in an academic setting as a Christian? This
1:04.0	episode is the final one in our series about the Reformation in conjunction with our conference
1:08.6	the Living Reformation 500 years of Martin Luther.
1:11.6	The conference was a big success thanks to everybody who came out and joined us.
1:15.0	Videos of Jennifer Powell McNutt's presentation and presentations from other guests will be
1:18.8	available on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks.
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