Almost 500 years have passed since Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-five Theses and launched the Protestant Reformation. Shot on location at key Reformation sites throughout Europe and featuring more ...
The Reformation was a culmination of events and circumstances, both here and abroad, which led to a seismic shift in the religious framework of this country. So what exactly happened, and what lasting ...
The essay examines how the international Protestant identity of the English Church came to be in tension with the later assertion of sacramentalist or Catholic values within it. It chronicles how the ...
Unknown artist, “The Kiss of Judas,” c. 1460 (image via HKI Institute/The Fitzwilliam Museum, Image Library) During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an ...
A week after Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Scotland and England and its historical significance is still reverberating. The first state visit by a Pope to Britain was remarkable in many different ways, ...
The supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church joined with the British monarch for a joint prayer in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, breaking an ecumenical barrier that has existed for approximately 500 ...
Most anti-Brexit polemic is so inane, banal and stultifyingly dull that it hardly warrants the time and effort of a response. Occasionally, however, we come across a piece of rhetoric which is clever ...
According to Cardinal Reginald Pole the English Reformation was result of Henry VIII's "fleshy will" and "carnal concupiscence". It is easy to understand why the most powerful man in Mary Tudor's ...