RHS Lecture: Professor Alec Ryrie ‘ “Protestantism” as a Historical Category’ View lecture. March 11, 2015 by Fulcrum n the past thirty years, the ‘confessionalization’ thesis has framed our understanding of the Reformation era, and has divided post-Reformation religion into distinct, parallel confessions. On the Protestant side, this has favoured – and produced a false equivalence between – the two confessions legally recognised by the Peace of Westphalia, Lutheran and Reformed Protestantism. In this lecture, Professor Ryrie argues that the broader term ‘Protestant’ remains the indispensable analytical category for examining the non-papal Christianities of the West after 1517. Royal Historical Society 6 February 2015 FulcrumShareTweetShare
