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Back to SearchHoP 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
HoP 380 - Take Your Choice - Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will
Episode 380
Erasmus clashes with Martin Luther over the question whether our wills are free or enslaved to sin.
5 years ago
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
Episode 379
How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts…
5 years ago
HoP 378 - Faith, No More - Martin Luther
Episode 378
How Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and his attack on the Church relate to the history of philosophy.
5 years, 2 months ago
HoP 377 - One Way or Another - Northern Scholasticism
Episode 377
Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalis…
5 years, 2 months ago
HoP 376 - Books That Last Forever - Erasmus
Episode 376
The “learned piety” of Desiderius Erasmus, the greatest figure of northern humanism.
5 years, 2 months ago
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
Episode 375
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
5 years, 3 months ago
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
Episode 374
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
5 years, 3 months ago