Events

The Network holds regular events throughout the year. Please contact us if you would like to be added to our mailing list and receive information about future events: F.Loughlin@ed.ac.uk.

Lunchtime Seminar – ‘Matthias Flacius – a radical Lutheran’

21 April, 12pm, Senate Room

Professor Volker Stümke is Professor Emeritus at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH working on an “Analysis of the Adiaphoristic Controversy (1548-1555) in Peace Ethics perspective”.

His paper on the Radical Lutheran Matthias Flacius Illyricus explores in-depth Flacius’ shifting response to the controversial Augsburg Interim – a period following the defeat of the Lutheran alliance of the Schmalkaldic League when the Lutheran Church faced new restrictions and seemed to many to be threatened with re-Catholicisation – and his growing dispute with Philipp Melanchthon.

Highlighting fundamental themes of law and religious freedom it provides a new perspective on this crucial period of the Reformation through the lens of peace ethics.

Inaugural Cheyne Memorial Lecture: Protestant Scotland’s Cardinal Sin

Date: 12 January, 4:10pm

Venue: Martin Hall

Join us for the inaugural Cheyne Memorial Lecture to celebrate the launch of the Network for the Study of the Long Reformation. In this event Professor Scott Spurlock (University of Glasgow) explored the tantalising topic: ‘Protestant Scotland’s Cardinal Sin.’ Opening reflections on the late Revd Professor A. C. Cheyne of New College were delivered by Stewart J. Brown, Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History (University of Edinburgh).