The Unintended Reformation | Prof. Brad Gregory

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 3, 2022, at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Brad S. Gregory is Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2003, and where he is also the Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. From 1996-2003 he taught at Stanford University, where he received early tenure in 2001. He specializes in the history of Christianity in Europe during the Reformation era and on the long-term influence of the Reformation era on the modern world. He has given invited lectures at many of the most prestigious universities in North America, as well as in England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Israel, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. Before teaching at Stanford, he earned his Ph.D. in history at Princeton University and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows; he also has two degrees in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. His first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 1999) received six book awards. Professor Gregory was the recipient of two teaching awards at Stanford and has received three more at Notre Dame. In 2005, he was named the inaugural winner of the first annual Hiett Prize in the Humanities, a $50,000 award from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture given to the outstanding midcareer humanities scholar in the United States. His most recent book is entitled The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap, 2012), which received two book awards. His forthcoming book is entitled Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts that Continue to Shape Our World (Harper, 2017).

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1:10.6	I'm sure that most, if not all of you, were aware, at least on some level, that
1:14.6	2017 was the 500th anniversary of what's regarded as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation,
1:19.6	the writing by Martin Luther of his 95 Theses.
1:23.6	Historical commemorations in general cast a temporary spotlight on we historians who otherwise
1:28.9	labor away in our respective fields without fanfare, without much attention, providing an opportunity
1:35.2	to step back, take stock, and ask questions about the long-term implications and the influences,
1:41.0	the legacies, and the significance of the historical phenomena that's being commemorated.
1:46.1	In my case, as it turned out, I inadvertently got a head start because, as Zach just mentioned,
1:51.0	in 2012, I published a book called The Unintended Reformation, How a Religious Revolution Secularized
1:57.1	Society, which is about the ways in which Europe and North America today can't
2:02.7	properly be understood apart from understanding the Reformation era, circa 1520 to 1650.
2:10.8	I definitely did not expect the book to garner over 100 reviews to initiate conversations
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