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Back to SearchHoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands
Episode 390
Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.
4 years, 1 month ago
HoP 389 - The Acid Test - Theories of Matter
Episode 389
Schegk, Taurellus, Gorlaeus, and Sennert revive atomism to explain chemical reactions, the composition of bodies, and the generation of organisms.
4 years, 1 month ago
HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy
Episode 388
Paracelsus adapts the tradition of alchemical science for use in medicine, and in the process overturns the scientific theories of Aristotle and Gale…
4 years, 2 months ago
HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy
Episode 387
An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.
4 years, 2 months ago
HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa
Episode 386
Was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa a dark magician, a pious skeptic, or both?
4 years, 3 months ago
HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism
Episode 385
In a surprise twist, some Protestant thinkers embrace the methods of scholasticism, and even find something to admire in the work of Catholic authors…
4 years, 3 months ago
HoP 384 - We Are Not Our Own - John Calvin
Episode 384
John Calvin's views on predestination and the limits of human reason.
4 years, 4 months ago
HoP 383 - Slowly But Surely - Huldrych Zwingli
Episode 383
The Swiss theologian Zwingli launches the Reformation in Switzerland, but clashes with Luther and more radical Protestants.
4 years, 4 months ago
HoP 382 - No Lord but God - the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation
Episode 382
Faced with massive political upheaval and the rise of the Anabaptists, Luther argues for a socially conservative version of the Reformation.
4 years, 4 months ago
HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon
Episode 381
Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.
4 years, 5 months ago