Reinterpreting the past in an unprecedented present: history and the Anthropocene. A lecture by Brad Gregory *ONLINE*

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Date(s) - Mon 19 May
17:15 - 18:30


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Part of the 2025 Burns Lectures, “Christians, Consumption, and Climate Change: Christianity between the Last Ice Age and the Anthropocene”.

Professor Brad Gregory is the Henkels Family College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

He is the author of a number of books, including: Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World (2017); The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (2012); and Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (1999).

Other lectures
Tuesday 20 May
Fortunes for the Few, Misfortunes for the Many: Constructing the Ancient Inhumanities

Wednesday 21 May
Enduring the Way of the World: Covenant, Community, and Justice in Ancient Israel

Tuesday 27 May
Subverting the Way of the World: The Oblique Radicalism of Jesus of Nazareth

Wednesday 28 May
Accommodating the Way of the World: Making Room for Mammon, Making Peace with Rome

Thursday 29 May
Extending the Way of the World: Western Christianity from Constantine to the Anthropocene

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