31. The Reformation in France

[@thomasdonovan3580]

Bruce Gore is one of my favorite historians.

[@deetsy4jesus]

I have been studying the Reformation for years. I love history, especially the history of the church. I have watched several of your lectures now and, thankfully, you have filled in many blanks. I read everything I can get my hands on, but my funds are extremely limited so I have to settle for free e-books, mainly. I am a Protestant but not a Presbyterian. I am very grateful that your lectures stick to the history and the Word of God! I thank God for leading me to your channel! May God bless you and keep you during the troubled days ahead in this world!

[@GoreBruce]

+Donna Perez Thank you very much and blessings to you and yours!

[@mottgirl13]

Thank you for this. Thank God for the sustenance and provisions that he’s blessed you with, to teach and share so freely.

[@RKarmaKill]

this guy is the lecturer styled most suitably for online viewing. credentials and supporting knowledgeablilty is satisfactory

[@oaoalphachaser]

Thank you for your lectures.

[@Oneeyedicehockeycoach]

Thank you sir. Last name gore.. Mine goar. Must be related somewhere down the line.. Great share.

[@cesarchavez9897]

Excelent!

[@maxinedunnett8353]

My grandmother was Huguenot from France most interesting history lesson!

[@danielcharrie7125]

Ty Bruce Gore, l am french,l live in Scotland ,I am christian missionary, I learned a lot with this video, now we a in 2020, and l am not sure where the world is going, but l pray that Jesus is coming back asap. Anyway,as history shows: we don't know!!! Ty for sharing your knowledge, these 2wemen are wonderful,l hope l can meet them sometime, somewhere,ty again 🙏

[@GoreBruce]

Thank you, and God's richest blessings in your ministry!

[@athb4hu]

That was awesome, I learnt some new things today.

[@GoreBruce]

Thanks!

[@juliagravelle3535]

Awesome lecture! I'm currently enrolled in a Grade 12 World History class and this really helped broaden my understanding. Thank you so much!

[@brucegore4373]

I am delighted to hear from you! Thanks for the feedback!

[@davidkaus5507]

You are entirely welcome. God Bless.

[@richardadams974]

Thx

[@SusanLynch-cu4yp]

The Huguenots faith lived on . During WW2, the descendents were instrumental in saving many Jews during the Nazi occupation. Filmmaker Pierre Sauvage made a documentary about it. He was an infant , who with his parents were hidden from the Germans. The faith of those Christians in the triune God and His Word continued to sustain them through yet another season of hardship.

[@GoreBruce]

Yes indeed! God bless them!

[@thomasdonovan3580]

Bruce Gore = Cicero

[@wandaseaman]

I believe that the Huguenots of the Languedoc were not Calvinists and I write about this in my book: "Huguenots and Jews of the Languedoc". This book is available at lulu.com

[@Johnnycdrums]

You can't bypass the "War Of The League Of Cambrai" if you believe the British and Dutch developed the Venetian System of the Doge.

[@GoreBruce]

Fair enough. Thanks!

[@Facade19]

I am sorry but was not Francis II from the House of Valois-Angouleme? The Guise family was indeed the most ardent Catholic noble family, but they actually never ruled France from my understanding.

[@GoreBruce]

Yes, you are quite correct. Not sure how that error slipped into my lecture, but I stand corrected! Thanks for your interest.

[@Facade19]

***** No Mr Gore, I sincerely thank you for this wonderful lecture! I am thoroughly invested into learning as much as I can about the Reformation and the Reformed faith and your lecture series are jewels engraved with knowledge. Thank you for posting them.

[@jackdarby2168]

The third type of life is the Life of Contemplation, which we shall consider in the sequel. [8] The Life of Money-making is a constrained2 kind of life, and clearly wealth is not the Good we are in search of, for it is only good as being useful, a means to something else. On this score indeed one might conceive the ends before mentioned to have a better claim, for they are approved for their own sakes. But even they do not really seem to be the Supreme Good; however, many arguments against them have been disseminated, so we may dismiss them.6. But perhaps it is desirable that we should examine the notion of a Universal Good, and review the difficulties that it involves, although such an inquiry goes against the grain because of our friendship for the authors of the Theory of Ideas.3 Still perhaps it would appear desirable, and indeed it would seem to be obligatory, especially for a philosopher, to sacrifice even one's closest personal ties in defense of the truth. Both are dear to us, yet 'tis our duty to prefer the truth.4 [2] The originators5 of this theory, then, used not to postulate Ideas of groups of things in which they posited6 an order of priority and posteriority7 （for which reason they did not construct an Idea of numbers in general）. But Good is predicated alike in the Categories of Substance, of Quality, and Relation; yet the Absolute,8 or Substance, is prior in nature to the Relative, which seems to be a sort of offshoot or ‘accident’ of Substance; so that there cannot be a common Idea corresponding to the absolutely good and the relatively good. [3] Again, the word ‘good’ is used in as many senses as the word ‘is’; for we may predicate good in the Category of Substance, for instance of God, or intelligence; in that of Quality-the excellences; in that of Quantity-moderate in amount; in that of Relation-useful; in that of Time-a favorable opportunity; in that of Place-a suitable ‘habitat’9; and so on. So clearly good cannot be a single and universal general notion; if it were, it would not be predicable in all the Categories, but only in one. [4] Again, things that come under a single Idea must be objects of a single science; hence there ought to be a single science dealing with all good things. But as a matter of fact there are a number of sciences even for the goods in one Category: for example, opportunity, for opportunity in war comes under the science of strategy, in disease under that of medicine; and the due amount in diet comes under medicine, in bodily exercise under gymnastics. [5] One might also raise the question what precisely they mean by their expression the ‘Ideal so and-so,’10 seeing that one and the same definition of man 1 It is not certain whether this phrase refers to written treatises （whether Aristotle's own dialogues and other popular works, now lost, or those of other philosophers）, or to philosophical debates like those which Plato's dialogues purport to report （as did doubtless those of Aristotle）. Cf. De caelo 279a 30 ἐν τοῖς ἐγκυκλίοις φιλοσοφήμασι, ‘in the ordinary philosophical discussions,’ and De anima 407b 29 τοῖς ἐν κοινῷ γινομένοις λόγοις, ‘the discussions that go on in public’; and see 13.9 note for similar references to ‘extraneous discussions.’ 2 Literally ‘violent’; the adjective is applied to the strict diet and and laborious exercises of athletes, and to physical phenomena such as motion, in the sense of ‘constrained’, ‘not natural’. The text here has been suspected. 3 The translation ‘Forms’ is perhaps less misleading: εἶδος is not a psychological term. 4 Probably a verse quotation. 5 Or perhaps ‘importers’ from the Pythagoreans of S. Italy. 6 Perhaps ‘we posit’.

[@gigahorse1475]

The unchristian behavior of those who call themselves Christian is astonishing! Burning other Christ-followers at the stake, threatening a mother with loss of her children… wow. Maybe a lot of it comes from mixing the church and state… politics corrupts the church.

[@MrRobertbyers]

This is a France reformation history and not a false feminist revisionist history right???

[@GoreBruce]

Well, as far as I know, that is correct.

[@tobystewart4403]

Why must we choose one or the other?

[@Kawhisexual]

sir please help me between 9:00-9:30, you describe how Francis I gradually disliked protestant movement. It makes sense that such movement didn't favor his interests anymore, but how did the movement conflict or threaten his interests?? What motivated his hostility against the reformation?? Please help and thank you for your great lecture

[@GoreBruce]

Hard to read motives from this historical distance, but it seems likely that the deeply entrenched power of the Catholic establishment in France continued to put increasing pressure on Francis, especially given the progress of Protestant political power in England and Scotland.

[@davidkaus5507]

A wonderful lecture Mr. Gore, quite informative, and very inspirational.

[@GoreBruce]

+David Kaus Thank you!

[@JP-1969]

Totally awesome thanks Bruce for these videos .

[@JoeHynes284]

this was really interesting. I am an atheist and so do not know much at all about the various versions of Christianity. I look forward to some of the other lecturers as well

[@GoreBruce]

Joe schmo I very much appreciate your interest! Thank you!

[@rachelsambrano6060]

Hello. Thank you so much for putting this together. I stumbled across your lecture because I am being led by the Holy Spirit into researching about my family history an King Henry is apparently my 14th great grand uncle. Last year it was only a journey to find out about my native american history which then led into me finding out all about this! I wish that I would have known about this when I was in high school. I am sure I would have gotten an A+. I am excited to learn more and write me book on my heritage...especially now! Hope you will read it once it is written:) Thank you:)

[@GoreBruce]

I would love to read it! Keep me posted on your progress!

[@rachelsambrano6060]

Bruce Gore, Ok. I will. Thank you. Have a wonderful day.

[@TheSiggyMan6]

On the Map you showed the Spanish kingdom of Navarre (Pamplona). By this time that had become part of Castile and French Navarre was ruled in Pau and only had territory north of the Pyrenees. Otherwise great lecture.

[@GoreBruce]

Thanks for the clarification!

[@mayena]

Francois I was the great-great grandson of Charles V of France (1364-1380).

[@frederiquecouture3924]

En Français SVP...

[@MrRobertbyers]

This is a great history. while I don't agree with women in power, then or now, it shows it was God using women to undercit the evil designs against the true faith emerging. i don't know numbers but the 40% of nobility, so the upper class, being protestant is remarkable but explains why the upper class of the French did do well intellectually in keeping up with protestant nations. However because it was only a small percentage in the populace therefore the general smarts of the French did not raise as in protestant nations and Catholic France lingered behind in the dramatic rise of civilization created by the protestant motivations affecting the common people.

[@dennistroyer6196]

Henry IV did not convert until much later to end the wars of religion. He did not do so to save his life in the infamous St. Bartholomew Day Massacre. Also FYI James V of Scotland died of fever after the battle of Solway moss, not in battle in it.

[@GoreBruce]

I appreciate the corrections. Thanks!