The Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed

Not Just the Tudors

History Hit

History

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the sixteenth century, religious beliefs underwent a dramatic change. As differences between the late medieval Roman Catholic Church and the nature of Luther's Protestantism spread across Western Europe, where you stood on points of theology could literally mean life or death. For example, what did you have to do to attain salvation? And what happened in the most holy moment of a church service, the Mass?

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the complex and fascinating ideas that people believed with Professor Alec Ryrie.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

Discover the past on History Hit with ad-free original podcasts and documentaries released weekly presented by world renowned historians including Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Lucy Worsley, Matt Lewis, Tristan Hughes and more. Get 50% off your first 3 months with code TUDORS. Download the app on your smart TV or in the app store or sign up here >

You can take part in our listener survey here >

For more Not Just The Tudors content, subscribe to our Tudor Tuesday newsletter here >

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit.
0:03.2	To listen to all of our episodes, add free and watch hundreds of history documentaries,
0:08.4	download the History Hit app.
0:10.8	Or go to historyhit.com forward slash subscribe.
0:15.4	And if you're an Apple listener, you can subscribe for new,
0:18.8	add free episodes within the app.
0:32.6	In 1500, everyone, more or less, conceived of the world in religious terms.
0:37.3	It was religion that determined the rhythm of people's everyday lives.
0:40.9	It framed the events of their year and it preoccupied thought.
0:45.3	In the 16th century, of course, there was a seismic change across Europe
0:50.7	in the nature of that thought.
0:52.6	We call it the Reformation.
0:54.8	What people believed was jolted and disturbed,
0:58.5	chiefly what they believed about how to be made right with God
1:01.8	and what was required of them to receive salvation,
1:04.5	the promise of a life of eternal blessing with God after death.
1:08.1	But also a whole host of other subsidiary beliefs like
1:11.4	what they thought actually happened in the most holy moment of the church service, the mass.
1:16.8	Traditionally, it had always been thought that the bread and wine were mystically transubstantiated.
1:22.4	In other words, actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
1:27.7	In some ways, there was surprising continuity in between Roman Catholicism
1:31.7	and the radical breakaway movement by Martin Luther
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from History Hit, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of History Hit and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.