The Republic of King Jesus - Professor Alec Ryrie

The English Civil Wars of 1642-8 began as the last of Europes wars of religion and ended as the first modern revolution. www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
Parliamentarians had been fighting for the chance to finish Englands Reformation, but the experience of war convinced some of them that thr mere reshaping of the establishment was not enough. To be true to their religious vision, something more searching and profound was needed. This restless spirit manifested itself in various sects and fellowships, united by a loathing of complacency and hypocrisy, which both supported and helped to undermine the republican experiment.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: gresham.ac.uk/support/
Website: www.gresham.ac.uk
Twitter: / greshamcollege
Facebook: / greshamcollege
Instagram: / greshamcollege

[@prayingmantis2389]

Interesting College lectures for free from the comfort of my own 📱 lovely. Thanks for uploading

[@TheModernHermeticist]

Thanks for uploading

[@CortezHoratio]

*Extremely* interesting and topical lecture. Thanks for uploading it!

[@stevequizodlibumpbumpbump3575]

Charles number two stayed at my family's (George Carteret's sister's) house on Jersey durin his exile, enroute to France.

[@RonJohn63]

10:31 Very insightful.

[@carlabroderick5508]

As to Catholic traditionalists not being extremist, how, unless you mean traditionalists only in sense of retention of latin mass?

[@exilfromsanity]

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

[@paulwilkinson1539]

I know that that quote has been attributed to Professor Steven Weinberg, but do you know who used it originally? (I am just curious)

[@exilfromsanity]

Paul Wilkinson As far as I know it is original to Professor Weinberg. I've always seen it attributed to him and never to anyone else.

[@RonJohn63]

The problem with that quote is that it doesn't remind us that the religions that have done the most evil and killed the most people (Stalinism, Hitlerism and Maoism) aren't thought of as religions.

[@PifflePrattle]

You forgot market fundamentalism and the religion of anarcho- capitalism - aka libertarianism in the US and the followers of Ayn Rand. BTW should the American religious right be thought of as religious. Seem like political extremists to me. Those Trump rallies seem very religious to me, as well as disturbingly reminiscent of those rallies the Germans used to hold back in the 30's.