Brad G Gregory

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe

The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs

Brad Stephan Gregory

Brad Stephan Gregory (born 28 May 1963 in Woodstock, Illinois) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Gregory received the...

History of Christianity in the Reformation Era (Great Courses) (Teaching Company) (Course Number 690 DVD)

36 Lectures 1 Early Modern Christianity-A Larger View 2 The Landscape of Late Medieval Life 3 Late Medieval Christendom-Beliefs, Practices, Institutions I 4 Late Medieval Christendom-Beliefs, Practices, Institutions II 5 Vigorous or Corrupt? Christianity on the Eve of the Reformation 6 Christian Hum...

Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion

While religious history and intellectual history are both active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry, historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid little attention to one another's work. The intellectual historian Quentin Skinner urged scholars to attend to the c...

36 Books That Changed the World

Certain works of literature, history, science, philosophy, political theory and religion offer powerful examples of how books can spark revolutions, birth great religions, spur scientific advancements, shape world economies, teach us new ways of thinking, and much more. And with this fascinating col...

The Great Courses: History of Christianity in the Reformation Era

It still takes a major effort of historical imagination to enter the minds of those who lived during the Reformation Era, who were willing to suffer martyrdom or martyr others for what we would regard as minor doctrinal differences. These 36 lectures are designed to take you inside the minds of thos...

The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common good, and the...

Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism

Research indicates that on average, Americans change their religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Today, a number of evangelical Christians are converting to Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism. Longtime Evangelicals often fail to understand the attraction of these non-Ev...

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard Historical Studies)

Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensi...

We Don't Always Get It Right the First Time: Lessons for the Next Generation

- Sometimes it's better to finish last and have 99 people cheering for you, than to finish first and have to stand there all alone. - A liar tells the truth every time he lies. - When someone pulls out a camera, don't ask them to take a picture of you. - If you don't think it's funny, don't laugh. -...