England‘s Anglican Reformation

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  • čas přidán 27. 04. 2021
  • The English Reformation gave rise to the global Christian communion called Anglicanism: but neither immediately nor directly. This highly distinctive form of Christianity - ritualistic but nondogmatic, self-consciously moderate but staunchly nationalistic - has long been closely tied to English national identity.
    This lecture asks how it came to emerge over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tracing its roots in the Reformation and showing how political chance and the traumas of civil war led to its slow and improbable ascent to dominance.
    A lecture by Alec Ryrie
    The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
    www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an...
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Komentáře • 48

  • @gingerhid
    @gingerhid Před 3 lety +38

    What a privilege it is to watch all these lectures for free, from home. Thanks to Dr Ryrie for opening my eyes to a topic I would have unfairly thought of as a bit dry - far from it!

  • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842

    I got here for atheism & scepticism,
    But stayed for Alec Ryrie.

  • @johncassels3475
    @johncassels3475 Před 3 lety +21

    I thoroughly enjoy these lectures with Alec Ryrie.
    Keep 'em coming!
    Thanks.

  • @jeanpaulsinatra
    @jeanpaulsinatra Před 3 lety +14

    Man, if you don't think moderates can be vicious today, try putting forward a soft left position to a Labour party meeting

  • @rhythmandblues_alibi
    @rhythmandblues_alibi Před rokem +6

    I'm into my fifth hour of listening to these lectures and it's been great! Thoroughly enjoying learning more about this topic through history which I now realise I was woefully undereducated on. Much appreciate your engaging delivery! 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @saltydodger9597
    @saltydodger9597 Před 3 lety +14

    I do so enjoy your lectures.
    Reminds me of the PhD I should have done.

    • @alecryrie8209
      @alecryrie8209 Před 3 lety

      It's never too late!

    • @TheLadyDelirium
      @TheLadyDelirium Před 3 lety

      @S B I agree. It's never too late. I'm 37 and never got any higher education as I left school at 16. I'm now studying to get my degree and it feels great.

    • @nomadpurple6154
      @nomadpurple6154 Před 3 lety

      @S B not everyone has the finances to provide food & shelter so education can be a luxury they cannot afford

  • @isaactomangrief9158
    @isaactomangrief9158 Před 3 lety +5

    It feels like an age since the last one! I will have to watch them all again when the series is over, just to live my denial that there will be no more of this superlative series.

  • @robsniffen7597
    @robsniffen7597 Před 3 lety +4

    Love Gresham College content. Thanks from the States.

  • @CanadianAnglican
    @CanadianAnglican Před 19 dny

    Thank you for this great video.

  • @salvatoremazzone6912
    @salvatoremazzone6912 Před 3 lety +6

    Papisticall is now my new favorite word

  • @warrenstutely7151
    @warrenstutely7151 Před 9 měsíci

    Thanks so much for such enlightening material. !!!! Warren

  • @paulreuben7343
    @paulreuben7343 Před rokem +2

    "....a specific potato-faced individual" 😂😂 i wasnt expecting that....Comedy Gokd

  • @kingcrazymani4133
    @kingcrazymani4133 Před 3 lety +1

    An academic lecture about history, filled with vital invidious nuance? And only recently, We thought it were a lost art. Nice to see the flame of taxonomy, however subtle, still exists somewhere on the planet. Many thanks for the lecture. A vital topic for the times. Although We see the contemporaneous battle between divine Crown and Church more like early Charlemagne, than early 1530s Hampton Court through the demise of Cromwell. Resolution will have to be different. Also, thanks for putting Our head on straight about the meaning of moderation. A huge old retro insight for the times. The use of the term ties into the emerging non-odd concept of Narcissism. Setter and keeper of official acta.

  • @timeless4320
    @timeless4320 Před 3 lety +1

    -yes, we are listening :) thx !

  • @mykhaylovarvarin9078
    @mykhaylovarvarin9078 Před 3 lety +5

    2:20 is actually, ukrainian map, not russian. And it's something like "anglikanstvo"

  • @emmcee662
    @emmcee662 Před 2 lety

    Exceptional!

  • @ornil
    @ornil Před 3 lety +7

    I love your lectures, but just FYI your "Russian" map is actually in Ukrainian.

  • @SsspraakForsskkarring
    @SsspraakForsskkarring Před 2 lety

    Fascinating

  • @michelchevalier6011
    @michelchevalier6011 Před rokem +1

    All your lectures are very interesting and reveal a lot on Anglicanism. I am French and French people do not know anything about religious affairs in British islands...
    Just a question on a topic not alluded to in your lecture, if I have listened correctly. How to explain the Credo of the Church of England... "I believe in the HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH ?"It's not here a question of rituals but more of dogma. Could you tell us something on this point ?

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo Před 11 měsíci +1

      "Catholic" (Greek _καθολικός_ ) here means "universal". The idea is that there is one Universal Church, founded by the Apostles - the full expression is "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" - and that the Church of England, along with all other churches that use the Nicene Creed, is a successor of that church. Of course, there is disagreement on whether other churches (particularly the _Roman_ Catholic church) are in fact true successors of the Universal Church, or if they should be condemned as heretics.

  • @andblast
    @andblast Před 3 lety

    Transcript link seems broken

  • @kevinfox3875
    @kevinfox3875 Před 2 lety

    Quality historical account

  • @SuperCulloden
    @SuperCulloden Před 2 lety +1

    10,222 views...... 234 approvals, and twenty one comments, including this, over a more than five month period of time..

  • @wulfherecyning1282
    @wulfherecyning1282 Před 3 lety +6

    South Europe: Tradition!
    England: Yeah!
    North Europe: F the Papacy!
    England: Yeah!
    North and South Europe: *What?*

  • @barrycrump6189
    @barrycrump6189 Před 3 lety +1

    Can someone please explain to me how a monarch can be divinely appointed?
    I realise that many accept that the rubbing of some 'holy' oil on to the monarch's forehead that a priest has offered some incantation over, and then offering the crown up towards the heavens before plonking it on the monarch's head might make some think that this an act of divinity, but in reality, we know this to be utter poppycock and is just theatre in order the appease the Establishment and to subjugate the masses.

    • @cbwilson2398
      @cbwilson2398 Před 7 měsíci

      You shouldn't ask a question that you then answer yourself. It suggests that you aren't interested in actually getting an answer.

  • @Kitiwake
    @Kitiwake Před 3 lety +2

    How many Catholic lives did it cost again?

    • @alecryrie8209
      @alecryrie8209 Před 3 lety +8

      Depends how you count. Around 300 actually judicially executed for loyalty to the papacy. Many hundreds more in reprisal killings after Catholic-inspired rebellions, and thousands during those rebellions. It's as nothing compared to the mostly intra-Protestant killings of the Civil War, and as for the body count in the Thirty Years' War ... But then, it's not a competition!

  • @michaelhaywood8262
    @michaelhaywood8262 Před 3 lety +2

    This series of lectures certainly proves the protestant nature of the Anglican church, in spite of the claims made by so-called 'Anglo-Catholics'

    • @georgesrobitaille3767
      @georgesrobitaille3767 Před 3 lety +2

      It's my understanding that their claim to Catholicism is like the Orthodox claim, that they're part of the universal church

    • @jairiske
      @jairiske Před 3 lety +1

      @@georgesrobitaille3767 I'm orthodox and I don't know what your referring to. Could you please give some context to what the universal church is? We have what is called apostolic succession, the meaning being that we can trace the ordination of every clergy member all the way back to the apostles.

    • @georgesrobitaille3767
      @georgesrobitaille3767 Před 3 lety +3

      @@jairiske In the creed of the Council of Constantinople it says "we believe in one, holy, catholic [which means universal] and apostolic Church." This means that there is only only one church which is the true Church for the entire world. The Roman Catholics believe that their church is that church and that the Orthodox and Protestants broke away, Orthodoxy holds the same belief in reverse, that it is the true Church for all of humanity and that the Western, Roman Catholic Church broke away from it, Anglicans and other Protestants believe that both the Catholic and Orthodox moved away from true Christianity and so when they broke away to form their churches what they were really doing is re-establishing the Church as it was supposed to be and it originally was before the Roman Empire made changes to it and added what they see as pagan and non-Christian elements such as icons and statues, the veneration of Mary/Theotokos, the intercession of saints, professional clergy and monasticism, the belief that the eucharist is literally the body and blood of Christ rather than a representation.

  • @barrycrump6189
    @barrycrump6189 Před 3 lety +5

    Anything that wrests away the control of the backward thinking, superstitious laden and wholly corrupt nature of Catholicism and replaces it with a slightly less corrupt form of Christianity has my approval.
    Ever since the Council of Nicaea, the notion of Christianity has been perverted. Christianity became a movement that is bogged down in vain and misguided piety rather than adhering to true Christian ideals, which can be essentially be boiled down as love and forgiveness.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake Před 3 lety +6

      Ahh..I see there's a bigot on every corner in you neighborhood.

    • @barrycrump6189
      @barrycrump6189 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Kitiwake Where I live I don't have any neighbours. I am fortunate in this respect.

    • @briandelaney9710
      @briandelaney9710 Před 3 lety +4

      Read more Eamon Duffy. ESP “The Stripping of the Altars”.

    • @myvibe3893
      @myvibe3893 Před rokem +1

      You may be right, but the problem being The Vatican Church is The Church of Mammom.