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In this lecture, discover the social and political conditions that contributed to the Protestant Reformation and the multitude of unforeseen and unintended consequences that now define the modern world. The reasons for its rapid spread throughout Europe and its lasting effects went far beyond the theological debates surrounding the reformers’ ideas.
Instructor:
Brad S. Gregory is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1996) and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (1994-96). Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame in 2003, Gregory taught at Stanford University, where he received early tenure in 2001. Gregory has two degrees in philosophy as well, both earned at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Gregory's research focuses on Christianity in the Reformation era, the long-term effects of the Reformation, secularization in early modern and modern Western history, and methodology in the study of religion.
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In this lecture, discover the social and political conditions that contributed to the Protestant Reformation and the multitude of unforeseen and unintended consequences that now define the modern world. The reasons for its rapid spread throughout Europe and its lasting effects went far beyond the theological debates surrounding the reformers’ ideas.
Instructor:
Brad S. Gregory is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1996) and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (1994-96). Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame in 2003, Gregory taught at Stanford University, where he received early tenure in 2001. Gregory has two degrees in philosophy as well, both earned at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Gregory's research focuses on Christianity in the Reformation era, the long-term effects of the Reformation, secularization in early modern and modern Western history, and methodology in the study of religion.
Want to dive deeper? Visit our website for hundreds of hours of free audio and video content: instituteofcatholicculture.org
