Reformation [videorecording] : the individual before God / Gillian Bancroft and Sian Salt, producers and directors.
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TextSeries: Christian historyPublication details: [S.l] : BBC, c1996.Description: 1videodisc (57.59 min.)The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. In this program, Diarmaid MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation, and how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience. He shows how Luther wrote hymns to teach people the message of the Bible, and how a tasty sausage became the rallying cry for Ulrich Zwingli - a Swiss Reformer - to tear down statues of saints, allow married clergy and deny wine were the body and blood of Christ "Jesus ascended into heaven" declared Zwingli, "he's sitting at the right hand of the Father, not on a table here in Zurich."
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High School Learning Resource Center Audio Visual | BR 145.3 R332 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | DVD0441HS |
The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. In this program, Diarmaid MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation, and how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience. He shows how Luther wrote hymns to teach people the message of the Bible, and how a tasty sausage became the rallying cry for Ulrich Zwingli - a Swiss Reformer - to tear down statues of saints, allow married clergy and deny wine were the body and blood of Christ "Jesus ascended into heaven" declared Zwingli, "he's sitting at the right hand of the Father, not on a table here in Zurich."
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