YouTube: Anglican priest offers a brief History of the English Reformation
A SPECIAL SERIES of six short videos (12-15 min. each) on the English Reformation is being presented especially for the laity by Anglican theologian and historian Canon Ross Hebb. It is subtitled “The Story of Religious Turmoil, Rebellion and Reform in England during the 1500s.”
This engaging Lenten study is concise and well-scripted. Dr Hebb is a fine Canadian academic who can speak with ease to the general public. A new video will be released on YouTube each Sunday, with the last being broadcast on Palm Sunday.
Here is the paragraph promoting the series on YouTube:
A series of six short videos outlining the events of the Reformation as it occurred in England. Designed for the interested lay person, this series traces the momentous events which transformed the religious landscape of a nation. Did Henry VIII really create a new ‘Anglican’ Church? Why then did the Pope name Henry “Defender of the Faith”? Was it all a matter of a king’s insatiable lust for various women or did he die a committed old-style Catholic? How did an entire nation of Catholics become a nation of Protestants? Or did it? Who was Cardinal Wolsey? Thomas Cranmer? And was Queen Mary really that ‘bloody’? Was Elizabeth I an ‘illegitimate bastard’ or ‘good Queen Bess’? What were the respective roles of the English Bible, the Protestant ‘martyrs’ and the Book of Common Prayer? How did people come to prefer the hour-long sermon and despise a priest saying the Mass? How did simply ‘being’ Roman Catholic become a treasonable crime? Why did Puritans hate marriage rings, clergy gowns and the ‘sign of the cross’ at Baptism? All these matters and many more will be covered in this video series!
If you are wondering: “Why a Reformation?” “What needed fixing?” then this first video is for you: https://youtu.be/4MXy1pvLpcM
The next five titles are:
2: Henry VIII: Cautious Reform Begins
3: The Boy King and Rapid Reformation
4: Bloody Mary and Counter-reformation
5: Elizabeth I: A Religious Settlement & Stability
6: Church Life under Good Queen Bess
