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The English Reformation #1: The Long Reformation — Why did they burn?
This video introduces the concept of the "Long Reformation" — and sets the scene for the series that follows.
Part 1 of 6. See the playlist for the complete series ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm), or watch the full overview video (https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw) for a comprehensive single-sitting introduction.
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The English Reformation #1: The Long Reformation — Why did they burn?
The Reformation is often taught as a single dramatic event — Henry ...
The Reformation is often taught as a single dramatic event — Henry VIII, the break with Rome, the dissolution of the monasteries. But historians have increasingly come to see it ...differently: as a drawn-out process, with roots stretching back through the Lollards and Waldensians of the Middle Ages, and continuing well into the 18th century.
This video introduces the concept of the "Long Reformation" — and sets the scene for the series that follows.
Part 1 of 6. See the playlist for the complete series ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm), or watch the full overview video (https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw) for a comprehensive single-sitting introduction.
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This video introduces the concept of the "Long Reformation" — and sets the scene for the series that follows.
Part 1 of 6. See the playlist for the complete series ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm), or watch the full overview video (https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw) for a comprehensive single-sitting introduction.
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The English Reformation #2: The Medieval Church — Power, Wealth and doctrine
Before the Reformation could happen, there had to be something to ...
Before the Reformation could happen, there had to be something to reform. For roughly a thousand years, Christianity in Europe was largely synonymous with Catholicism — and the Church was ...not just a spiritual institution but a political and economic powerhouse.
This video examines the medieval Church on the eve of the Reformation: its extraordinary wealth (owning around a third of England's land), its legal and political power at every level of society, and the doctrinal authority that allowed it, in the last resort, to trump even the king. Books of Hours, tithe barns, ecclesiastical courts — all features of a world about to be turned upside down.
It also asks the underlying question: was the Reformation really about doctrine, or was it about power and money?
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This video examines the medieval Church on the eve of the Reformation: its extraordinary wealth (owning around a third of England's land), its legal and political power at every level of society, and the doctrinal authority that allowed it, in the last resort, to trump even the king. Books of Hours, tithe barns, ecclesiastical courts — all features of a world about to be turned upside down.
It also asks the underlying question: was the Reformation really about doctrine, or was it about power and money?
Follow the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm
Watch all six episodes combined into one video: https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw
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The English Reformation #3: Catholic or Protestant? The Single Defining Difference
What exactly is a Catholic? What is a Protestant? And what is the ...
What exactly is a Catholic? What is a Protestant? And what is the single, non-negotiable, defining difference between them — not just in the context of the Reformation, but across ...all Christian denominations, from Coptic Christianity to the Russian Orthodox Church?
The answer is simpler than you might expect — and once you have it, the entire history of the English Reformation suddenly makes much more sense.
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The answer is simpler than you might expect — and once you have it, the entire history of the English Reformation suddenly makes much more sense.
Follow the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm
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Title:The English Reformation #4: Heaven, Hell and Purgatory — Catholics vs Protestants
Beyond the question of papal authority, Catholics and Protestants in ...
Beyond the question of papal authority, Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century disagreed about almost everything: whether the Bible alone was sufficient authority or whether Church tradition counted equally; ...whether you got to heaven through good works or through faith alone; whether free will determined your fate or whether God had decided it from the beginning.
And then there was purgatory. Catholics believed in a third destination after death — neither heaven nor hell — while Protestants insisted there were only two options. That single disagreement had enormous practical consequences, reshaping everything from prayer to funeral rites to the sale of indulgences.
Part 4 of 6.
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And then there was purgatory. Catholics believed in a third destination after death — neither heaven nor hell — while Protestants insisted there were only two options. That single disagreement had enormous practical consequences, reshaping everything from prayer to funeral rites to the sale of indulgences.
Part 4 of 6.
Follow the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm
Watch all six episodes combined into one video: https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw
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The English Reformation #5: Henry VIII — Defender of the Faith - until he wasn't!
In 1521, Pope Leo X awarded Henry VIII the title "Fidei Defensor" — ...
In 1521, Pope Leo X awarded Henry VIII the title "Fidei Defensor" — Defender of the Faith — for writing a book attacking Martin Luther. The British royal family still ...uses that title today. Within a decade, Henry had broken with Rome entirely.
This video tells the story of how that happened — and why it wasn't quite the divorce everyone assumes. Henry didn't want a divorce; he wanted an annulment, arguing that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon had never been valid in the first place. When the pope refused, Henry had the marriage annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury, was excommunicated, declared himself head of the Church in England, closed the monasteries, and appropriated their wealth.
Yet Henry was neither Catholic nor Protestant. He burned Catholics who refused to accept his authority — and Protestants who challenged Catholic doctrine. Among them was the writer and poet Anne Askew, tortured and burned in 1546.
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This video tells the story of how that happened — and why it wasn't quite the divorce everyone assumes. Henry didn't want a divorce; he wanted an annulment, arguing that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon had never been valid in the first place. When the pope refused, Henry had the marriage annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury, was excommunicated, declared himself head of the Church in England, closed the monasteries, and appropriated their wealth.
Yet Henry was neither Catholic nor Protestant. He burned Catholics who refused to accept his authority — and Protestants who challenged Catholic doctrine. Among them was the writer and poet Anne Askew, tortured and burned in 1546.
Follow the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm
Watch all six episodes combined into one video: https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw
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The English Reformation #6: Edward, Mary and Elizabeth — The Via Media
After Henry VIII's death, England swung violently between Catholicism ...
After Henry VIII's death, England swung violently between Catholicism and Protestantism within the space of a single generation. Edward VI, raised a Protestant, pushed the Church in a decisively Protestant ...direction — only for his half-sister Mary to reverse everything and restore full allegiance to Rome. Then Elizabeth took the throne.
Elizabeth's solution was the "Via Media" — the middle way. Moderately Protestant in doctrine, flexible enough in practice to accommodate most of her subjects, and with the monarch, not the pope, as head of the Church. It was a settlement that has defined the Church of England ever since.
The final episode of the series — but not quite the end of the story. The 17th century brought a Catholic plot to blow up Parliament, and then the Puritan Revolution. That's another story.
Follow the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm
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Elizabeth's solution was the "Via Media" — the middle way. Moderately Protestant in doctrine, flexible enough in practice to accommodate most of her subjects, and with the monarch, not the pope, as head of the Church. It was a settlement that has defined the Church of England ever since.
The final episode of the series — but not quite the end of the story. The 17th century brought a Catholic plot to blow up Parliament, and then the Puritan Revolution. That's another story.
Follow the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmUHaFXV0g&list=PLzVb6yL_jY691qGGyOzshjvx-lABLBWTm
Watch all six episodes combined into one video: https://youtu.be/rF3TkvV_yiw
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