Reformations

Missed our fall lecture featuring Dr. Herman De Vries? We’re excited to share the video recording of this insightful event! Dr. De Vries, professor of Germanic Languages at Calvin University and holder of the Frederik Meijer Chair in Dutch Language and Culture, spoke on "Seeking Wisdom in Benedictine Spirituality in the Netherlands and Germany Today." In his talk, Dr. De Vries explored the resurge...

Presented By : Dr. Emanuel Conțac & Jeb Ralston

📣 We are sharing the recorded video of the Reformation Day Lecture! Have you missed our captivating Reformation Day Public Lecture on "Life as a Refugee in Calvin's Geneva"? Or would you like to listen to it again? We've got you covered. 🎥 Check out the recorded video featuring Dr. Karin Maag, Director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, as she delves into the 16th-century Geneva,...

This  week, join Meeter Center director Karin Maag for a show-and-tell  featuring amazing medals commemorating the Reformation from the Meeter  Center's collection. We are fortunate to have received an extensive set  of medals from a local collector, to add to the medals we already had -  many of these mark significant anniversaries of Calvin's life, but  others, like...

We heard from Dr. Maximilian Miguel Scholz, assistant professor of History, Florida State University, speaking about his upcoming book, _Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608_ (University of Virginia Press - release date January 17, 2022).  Following Max's presentation of the main themes of his book, we had responses from Dr. Jesse Spohnholz (Was...

We were delighted to host another Reformation Conversations Webinar this fall, this time focusing on Dr. Bruce Gordon’s upcoming biography of the Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli. The session took place on Thursday, Nov. 4, from 1 PM to 2:30 PM. Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, where he has served since 2008. His research focuses on the R...

Here is the recording of the final presentation in our summer 2021 webinar series, featuring Martin Klauber.  Dr. Klauber is an Affiliate Professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and our 2019 Emo Van Halsema fellowship recipient.  He began his fellowship with two weeks of study at the Meeter Center in 2019 and returned this year to complete his research. &...

Here is our next presentation in our summer webinar series, featuring Max Rogland.  Dr. Rogland is the Senior Minister at Rose Hill Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and the 2021 recipient of our Emo Van Halsema Fellowship.  His presentation, titled  "Chasing the Wind? Pursuing the Annotations in the 1637 Statenbijbel (Dutch) Translation of Ecclesiastes,"  consid...

Here is the next presentation in our summer webinar series, featuring Christine Kooi.  Dr. Kooi is the Lewis C. and Katheryn J. Price Professor of European History at Louisiana State University, and the 2020 recipient of our Friends of the Meeter Center Fellowship.  She will speak about her forthcoming book, _Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620_, which is slated to be published b...

The Meeter Center is pleased to present our summer scholar presentation series, featuring this year’s visiting scholars who are pursuing their research at the Meeter Center.  The first of these took place on July 1, 2021, and our speakers were Amanda Eurich and Preston Hill.  Dr. Eurich, our 2019 Faculty Fellowship recipient, is professor of history at Western Washington University. &nbs...

Join Reformation scholars Philip Benedict (Emeritus Professor, Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Geneva) and Michael Bruening (Associate Professor, History Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology) in conversation with Meeter Center Director Karin Maag on the key themes of their recent books, including fresh insights regarding John Calvin's role and status in the course of th...

In this episode Meeter Center Curator Paul Fields chats with Tom Lambert about paleography.  Dr. Lambert has conducted workshops on paleography for the Meeter Center on many occasions, and will do so again this summer.

Join Reformation scholars Philip Benedict (Emeritus Professor, Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Geneva) and Michael Bruening (Associate Professor, History Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology) in conversation with Meeter Center Director Karin Maag on the key themes of their recent books, including fresh insights regarding John Calvin's role and status in the course of th...

Meeter Center Curator Paul Fields and Calvin University Classics Professor David Noe discuss Dr. Noe's translation of two letters by Calvin in his new book _God or Baal: Two Letters on the Reformation of Worship and Pastoral Service_ (Reformation Heritage Books, 2020).

This episode features fascinating insights into trends and lines of enquiry in Reformation studies, led by three noted Reformation scholars: Susan Karant-Nunn, director emerita of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona; Victoria Christman (Luther College), and Beth Plummer, who holds the Susan Karant-Nunn Chair in Reformation and Early Modern History at...

In this conversation, Meeter Center director Karin Maag, author of _Worshiping with the Reformers_, (IVP 2021) is joined by Dr. Graeme Murdock, associate professor in European History at Trinity College Dublin. https://www.ivpress.com/worshiping-with-the-reformers

Listen in as Dr. Maag chats with Raymond Mentzer.  Dr. Mentzer is professor of religious studies at the University of Iowa, where he holds the Daniel J. Krumm Family Chair in Reformation Studies.  His work focuses on the sixteenth and seventeenth century French Reformed community.  In this conversation, he and Dr. Maag discuss Reformed studies today, and look at where scholarly tren...

Featuring Dr. Jeffrey Watt, Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. author of _The Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva_, published by the University of Rochester Press (2020). Dr. Watt is joined by Dr. Scott Manetsch (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) and Dr. Karen Spierling (Denison University), for a three-way conversation on this fascinating topic, followed by...

Dr. Lyle Bierma and Dr. Yudha Thianto discuss aspects of baptism in the Reformed church.  Lyle Bierma is professor of historical theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.  His upcoming book, _Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism_, will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2021.  He talks here about Calvin’s theology of baptism.  Yudha...

Listen in as Dr. Maag talks with Rebekah Earnshaw, assistant professor of theology at Dordt University.  Dr. Earnshaw recently published _ Creator and Creation According to Calvin_ on Genesis (July 2020 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage).

In this Reformations Conversation, Dr. Maag chats with Richard Muller, whose latest book, _ Grace and Freedom: William Perkins and the Early Modern Understanding of Free Choice and Divine Grace_ , is just out with Oxford University Press.  Dr. Muller is the PJ Zondervan Professor Emeritus at Calvin Theological Seminary, and the Senior Fellow at the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Res...

Join us for the next in our series of interviews with authors of recent books on Calvin, Calvinism, and the Reformation. Today's conversation features Dr. Forrest Buckner from Whitworth University on his recent book, _Uncovering Calvin's God: John Calvin on Predestination and the Love of God (Fortress Academic, August 2020).

Listen in as Meeter Center director Karin Maag interviews Dr. Barbara Pitkin (Stanford University) on her brand-new book, _ Calvin, the Bible, and History_ , published by Oxford University Press in June 2020.