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Author: Iona Hine

Luther, Ruth & the Protestant Work Ethic

Posted on 2nd November 2017 By Iona Hine

The following article by 500 Reformations director, Iona Hine, was first published in The Conversation. Join the discussion there, and find information about how to […]

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J is for Justification

Posted on 1st November 2017 By Iona Hine

The Worldwide Anglican and Reformed Churches both chose to mark the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses by endorsing an agreement written by Lutheran and Roman Catholic theologians: […]

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N is for Ninety-Five Theses

Posted on 27th October 2017 By Iona Hine

October 1517 is remembered in the popular imagination as the moment Luther posted his objections about church practice. Writing soon after Luther’s death, Philipp Melanchthon […]

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Gilted angels in the roofspace.

Friends of Cathedral Music: Sheffield Gathering

Posted on 18th October 2017 By Iona Hine

Angels in the cathedral roof are thought to pre-date the Reformation, though their wings are a more recent addition. (Detail from a photograph taken by Mark […]

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Book covers of Duffy's Stripping of the Altars and Voices of Morebath

R is for Revisionist

Posted on 18th October 2017 By Iona Hine

Talk about “Reformation” often reflects the speaker’s view. A 1617 cartoon shows Luther as powerful hero, using his pen to upset the powers-that-be. It supports […]

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1617 cartoon showing Luther with a long quill pen, writing on the church door.

Greengrass: “A hill not a stronghold”

Posted on 13th October 2017 By Iona Hine

EVENT REPORT: On Thursday 12 October, Mark Greengrass, emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sheffield (presently Associate Fellow at the University […]

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Martin Luther

L is for Luther

Posted on 12th October 2017 By Iona Hine

LUTHER WHO? In 2017, the average household may know more about Idris Elba than the sixteenth-century reformer: MARTIN LUTHER. Born in 1483, Martin Luther has […]

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