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Professor Thomas A. Fudge on: Martin Luther, Father of the Reformation
Martin Luther’s 500 Year Old Wax Nose Five hundred years ago, an Augustinian monk posted an announcement on a public bulletin board in a German university town. Hardly anyone knew him then. This rather ordinary event is still remembered. At the turn of the millennium, a group of reporters published a book listing 1,000 of the most important and influential people of the past millennium. Martin Luther (that obscure “drunken German monk” as Pope Leo X called him) was ranked third behind Johannes Gutenberg and Christopher Columbus. In 1934, a...
read morePostgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) and Symposium
Devotion, Gender and the Body in the Religious Cultures of Europe 1100-1800 A postgraduate advanced training seminar (PATS) and Symposium To be held on: Friday 18 August 2017 at Monash University (Clayton Campus) 11am-5pm and Saturday 19 August 2017 at Pilgrim Theological College, College Crescent, Parkville 9:30am-5pm The Religious History Association is keen to promote the study of religious history across a wide range of chronological periods and religious traditions. To this end, it is hosting a postgraduate advanced...
read moreCelebrating The Reformation 500th Anniversary
VDMA : Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum (The Word of the Lord Endures Forever) is the motto of the Lutheran Reformation, an expression of the perpetual power and authority of God’s Word. In 2017, Moore College, Newtown is planning to commemorate the Reformation 500th Anniversary by holding a series of public events. Dates for your diary are:Edit this page 26-27 May. Justification Summit 19 July. Public Lecture 3, 7-11 August. The Annual Moore College Lectures will be given by Carl Trueman, a well-known church historian who has...
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