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Deeper Waters Podcast 10/13/2018: Glenn Sunshine

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  • Deeper Waters Podcast 10/13/2018: Glenn Sunshine

    Ready to talk about the Reformation?

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    What's coming up? Let's plunge into the Deeper Waters and find out.

    Just over 500 years ago this month, the Reformation started which shook the world, and not just the Christian world. There is much debate about this event. Was it a good thing? Was it a bad thing? Why was it done?

    This month on the Deeper Waters Podcast, we are focusing on these kinds of questions. This one obviously is rooted in history. How shall we approach it? Many of us don't know much about what the world was like 500 years ago. Just as in studying the world of the Bible, we need to know what the world was like at the time of the Reformation to better understand the dynamics.

    To discuss this, I have decided to bring on a historian of the Reformation. I have seen this person do some debating and I was quite impressed with what I saw. It is my hope that he will be able to shed some light on this event for us and help us better understand what it was and how it shapes our world today. His name is Glenn Sunshine.

    So who is he?

    Glenn got his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1980 in linguistics with high honors. He got his Masters at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1985 in church history graduating Summa Cum Laude, another M.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 in Renaissance/Reformation history and his Ph.D. in 1992 from the same place in the same subject.
    So what did happen in the Reformation? Is this where a new church rose up that was completely cut off from the old? Did the Reformers decide to just get rid of everything and ignore all of the tradition of the past? Did the Reformers originally even intend to break away from the Catholic Church?

    How about relations with the Eastern Church? What role did those play? We often forget that there is a third major block of the Christian church.

    Did the church really need reform? Would even Catholics think that the church had issues at the time that needed to be addressed? If so, what really led to the events happening that were so dynamic that several people moved away from the Catholic Church and before too long, you had several other churches showing up?

    How are we to approach figures like Martin Luther? Sure, he did a lot to reform the church, but didn't he leave a lot of blotches behind, such as anti-semitism? Was he accurate in what he said and would any of his opponents have conceded that?

    Finally, how has the Reformation affected us today? What are the positives? What are the negatives? How are we to be Christians in a post-Reformation culture?

    These are the kinds of questions I plan to ask. I can't guarantee I'll get to all and there will be new ones rise up, but it will be great to talk about this with a professor of Reformation history. I hope you'll be listening and please consider going on iTunes and leaving a positive review of the Deeper Waters Podcast.

    In Christ,
    Nick Peters

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