What a privilege it is to watch all these lectures for free, from home. Thanks to Dr Ryrie for opening my eyes to a topic I would have unfairly thought of as a bit dry - far from it!

I got here for atheism & scepticism, But stayed for Alec Ryrie.

I thoroughly enjoy these lectures with Alec Ryrie. Keep 'em coming! Thanks.

I'm into my fifth hour of listening to these lectures and it's been great! Thoroughly enjoying learning more about this topic through history which I now realise I was woefully undereducated on. Much appreciate your engaging delivery! 👏👏👏👏👏

Man, if you don't think moderates can be vicious today, try putting forward a soft left position to a Labour party meeting

I do so enjoy your lectures. Reminds me of the PhD I should have done.

@alecryrie8209

3 жыл бұрын

It's never too late!

@TheLadyDelirium

2 жыл бұрын

@S B I agree. It's never too late. I'm 37 and never got any higher education as I left school at 16. I'm now studying to get my degree and it feels great.

@nomadpurple6154

2 жыл бұрын

@S B not everyone has the finances to provide food & shelter so education can be a luxury they cannot afford

Love Gresham College content. Thanks from the States.

Papisticall is now my new favorite word

@redfire20003

3 жыл бұрын

Papistical

Thanks so much for such enlightening material. !!!! Warren

It feels like an age since the last one! I will have to watch them all again when the series is over, just to live my denial that there will be no more of this superlative series.

"....a specific potato-faced individual" 😂😂 i wasnt expecting that....Comedy Gokd

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

Ай бұрын

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An academic lecture about history, filled with vital invidious nuance? And only recently, We thought it were a lost art. Nice to see the flame of taxonomy, however subtle, still exists somewhere on the planet. Many thanks for the lecture. A vital topic for the times. Although We see the contemporaneous battle between divine Crown and Church more like early Charlemagne, than early 1530s Hampton Court through the demise of Cromwell. Resolution will have to be different. Also, thanks for putting Our head on straight about the meaning of moderation. A huge old retro insight for the times. The use of the term ties into the emerging non-odd concept of Narcissism. Setter and keeper of official acta.

-yes, we are listening :) thx !

2:20 is actually, ukrainian map, not russian. And it's something like "anglikanstvo"

Exceptional!

Fascinating

All your lectures are very interesting and reveal a lot on Anglicanism. I am French and French people do not know anything about religious affairs in British islands... Just a question on a topic not alluded to in your lecture, if I have listened correctly. How to explain the Credo of the Church of England... "I believe in the HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH ?"It's not here a question of rituals but more of dogma. Could you tell us something on this point ?

@Tevildo

9 ай бұрын

"Catholic" (Greek _καθολικός_ ) here means "universal". The idea is that there is one Universal Church, founded by the Apostles - the full expression is "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" - and that the Church of England, along with all other churches that use the Nicene Creed, is a successor of that church. Of course, there is disagreement on whether other churches (particularly the _Roman_ Catholic church) are in fact true successors of the Universal Church, or if they should be condemned as heretics.

10,222 views...... 234 approvals, and twenty one comments, including this, over a more than five month period of time..

Quality historical account

I love your lectures, but just FYI your "Russian" map is actually in Ukrainian.

@alecryrie8209

3 жыл бұрын

whoops ... thank you!

South Europe: Tradition! England: Yeah! North Europe: F the Papacy! England: Yeah! North and South Europe: *What?*

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This series of lectures certainly proves the protestant nature of the Anglican church, in spite of the claims made by so-called 'Anglo-Catholics'

@georgesrobitaille3767

2 жыл бұрын

It's my understanding that their claim to Catholicism is like the Orthodox claim, that they're part of the universal church

@jairiske

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgesrobitaille3767 I'm orthodox and I don't know what your referring to. Could you please give some context to what the universal church is? We have what is called apostolic succession, the meaning being that we can trace the ordination of every clergy member all the way back to the apostles.

@georgesrobitaille3767

2 жыл бұрын

@@jairiske In the creed of the Council of Constantinople it says "we believe in one, holy, catholic [which means universal] and apostolic Church." This means that there is only only one church which is the true Church for the entire world. The Roman Catholics believe that their church is that church and that the Orthodox and Protestants broke away, Orthodoxy holds the same belief in reverse, that it is the true Church for all of humanity and that the Western, Roman Catholic Church broke away from it, Anglicans and other Protestants believe that both the Catholic and Orthodox moved away from true Christianity and so when they broke away to form their churches what they were really doing is re-establishing the Church as it was supposed to be and it originally was before the Roman Empire made changes to it and added what they see as pagan and non-Christian elements such as icons and statues, the veneration of Mary/Theotokos, the intercession of saints, professional clergy and monasticism, the belief that the eucharist is literally the body and blood of Christ rather than a representation.

@kennethchidozie3317

Жыл бұрын

@@georgesrobitaille3767 poor dilution argument today ....what is it in the Anglican circus today that is true christian, same is to ur protestants zombies tell me one thing today that justified the madness of Luther and his sheepish cohort....????

Can someone please explain to me how a monarch can be divinely appointed? I realise that many accept that the rubbing of some 'holy' oil on to the monarch's forehead that a priest has offered some incantation over, and then offering the crown up towards the heavens before plonking it on the monarch's head might make some think that this an act of divinity, but in reality, we know this to be utter poppycock and is just theatre in order the appease the Establishment and to subjugate the masses.

@cbwilson2398

5 ай бұрын

You shouldn't ask a question that you then answer yourself. It suggests that you aren't interested in actually getting an answer.

How many Catholic lives did it cost again?

@alecryrie8209

3 жыл бұрын

Depends how you count. Around 300 actually judicially executed for loyalty to the papacy. Many hundreds more in reprisal killings after Catholic-inspired rebellions, and thousands during those rebellions. It's as nothing compared to the mostly intra-Protestant killings of the Civil War, and as for the body count in the Thirty Years' War ... But then, it's not a competition!

Anything that wrests away the control of the backward thinking, superstitious laden and wholly corrupt nature of Catholicism and replaces it with a slightly less corrupt form of Christianity has my approval. Ever since the Council of Nicaea, the notion of Christianity has been perverted. Christianity became a movement that is bogged down in vain and misguided piety rather than adhering to true Christian ideals, which can be essentially be boiled down as love and forgiveness.

@wolfthequarrelsome504

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh..I see there's a bigot on every corner in you neighborhood.

@barrycrump6189

3 жыл бұрын

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 Where I live I don't have any neighbours. I am fortunate in this respect.

@briandelaney9710

2 жыл бұрын

Read more Eamon Duffy. ESP “The Stripping of the Altars”.

@myvibe3893

Жыл бұрын

You may be right, but the problem being The Vatican Church is The Church of Mammom.