The Unintended Reformation | Prof. Brad Gregory
The Thomistic Institute
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This lecture was given on February 9th, 2024, at St. Joseph's in Greenwich Village.
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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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| 0:57.3 | Many of you are probably aware that 2017 was the 500th anniversary of what is regarded as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, namely Martin Luther's 95 thesis. |
| 1:09.9 | Historical commemoration cast a kind of a temporary spotlight on we historians, |
| 1:16.6 | who otherwise we tend to labor away in our respective fields without much fanfare, without much attention. |
| 1:23.3 | But these big anniversaries and commemorations provide an opportunity to step back, to take stock, to ask questions about the long-term implications, the influences the legacies and significance of the historical phenomena in question. |
| 1:39.8 | In my case, I, as it were, inadvertently got a head start. |
| 1:43.8 | Back in 2012, Harvard University Press published the book that, In my case, I, as it were, inadvertently got a head start. |
| 1:44.3 | Back in 2012, Harvard University Press published |
| 1:47.8 | the book that Father Bonifus mentioned, |
| 1:49.7 | The Unintended Reformation, How a Religious Revolution |
| 1:52.5 | Secularized Society, which is about the ways |
| 1:55.5 | in which Europe and North America today |
| 1:59.6 | cannot be well understood apart from the Reformation era between about |
| 2:04.5 | 1520 and 1650 in Western Europe. The book initiated conversations that then continued through |
| 2:12.0 | 2017 and have persisted in various ways over the last eight years, becoming part of international discussions |
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