Monthly Meeting – 24 April 2025

Following the AGM, Professor Alec Ryrie will present a talk entitled ‘Protestants: A History in Seven Characters’

Protestant Christianity emerged from Martin Luther’s Reformation in the early 1500s. It spread across Europe, to Britain and eventually around the world; there are about a billion Protestants alive today, and their religion and culture have profoundly shaped the modern age. In the: A History : process, Protestantism has taken on hundreds of different guises, but there are still some common threads tying the whole story together. In this lecture, church historian Professor Alec Ryrie will tell the story of how Protestantism got from there to here by introducing seven remarkable men and women who exemplify different parts of that story: some heroes, some villains and some who, like most of us, are just caught uneasily somewhere in the middle.