Benjamin M. Guyer

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#HowtheEnglishReformationwasNamed

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https://t.co/jRKkb6y2h4 #historicalsemantics #Anglican #ChurchofEngland #EnglishReformation #Reformation #Tudors #Stuart #history #earlymodern #twitterstorians

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@HappyThurifer That is kind of you. If/when you do, please let me know what you think!

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@HappyThurifer Thank you so much for this. Yes, I am an early modernist. I look forward to learning more!

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SOON AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Daniel J. Tolan, Torrance Kirby, and Douglas Hedley (eds.), The Reception of German Mysticism in Early Modern England! Details here: https://t.co/rWj6Dyb5fd

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NOW AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Andrii Pastushenko, Catholicism and Elizabethan Seafarers: Catholic Identities between England and Spain! Details here w/ OA access: https://t.co/YwtAKMWHMn

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new @hammockmusic! #newmusic

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NOW AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Jacob Randolph, Medieval Chivalry and the Making of Anabaptist Identity, 1535-1560! Details here: https://t.co/g5GmiEV4f4

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@j_rhett Congratulations! I will add this to the SCJ BRO list!

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One thing that convinces me that modern leftism is the spiritual heir to puritanism is that they are so evil & joyless they would do away with all of this in favour of a random guy in a suit giving some powerpoint presentation in a grey conference hall.

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NOW AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: D.G. Hart, Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution! Details here: https://t.co/7hBu8zCcVO

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@j_rhett @kyleworley But seriously: do clergy need more *theological* education? Wouldn't it be preferable to have them study something more empirical? I say, let them study logic, statistics, and the like before they go back theology.

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@j_rhett This inflation is sad but so, so true. And, at what point should we be blunt about certain doctorates not really being doctorates at all? The D.Div. comes to mind, and the D.Min. isn't far behind.

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@barukalas @anglochog Well, sometimes it appears. Have you seen my recent work on Cranmer and Erasmus?

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SOON AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550! Details here: https://t.co/z7v4XIbZrm

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SOON AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Thomas Hallock (ed.), The Epic of Florida, in Penn State's Latin American Originals series! Details here: https://t.co/Z4R3EkaiUL

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@the_thin_place @NiceColorsss The Scots Presbyterians certainly didn't think the CoE was "Reformed."

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@sirronaldfisher @the_thin_place @NiceColorsss Tract 91 was penned by William Reed Huntington something like 150 years ago.

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@the_thin_place I suspect that there are multiple myths regarding all of these.

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@the_thin_place 2. Myth-busting might yield historical insight, but if myth-busting purports to uncover and return to some original original, then it's just another myth. To borrow from Horkheimer and Adorno, myth might yield enlightenment - but enlightenment might also yield its own mythology.

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@the_thin_place 1. Ok, but every era has its own myths. The 16th c. had plenty. There are 17th c. myths of the 16th c., 19th c. myths of the 18th c., etc. And of course, some myths are less myths than old scholarly views since abandoned - sometimes discredited, sometimes not.