{"id":6656,"date":"2017-11-01T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2017-11-02T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:50:04","slug":"2017-j-j-thiessen-lecture-series-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2017\/2017-j-j-thiessen-lecture-series-video\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 J.J. Thiessen \/ Friesen Lecture Series (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"new\"><span class=\"s1\">Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) marked the 500<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on October 30 and 31 with a special lecture series delivered by the world\u2019s foremost scholar on Swiss Anabaptism.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/uploaded\/images\/Arnold%20Snyder%202010.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/>Dr. C. Arnold Snyder\u00a0presented\u00a0 the three-part series, titled, \u201cFaith and Toleration: A Reformation Debate Revisited.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Snyder, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON,\u00a0posed the question: Should dissenting religious beliefs be tolerated on religious principle, and toleration established as civic policy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lectures explored some of the events and debates that ensued 500 years ago when Martin Luther composed 95 theses for debate in Wittenberg, drawing some conclusions for our day.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"new\"><strong>Lecture #1: Monday, October 30<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Scripture Alone, Faith Alone, Toleration Doubtful<\/strong><br \/>\nOne might have thought that the central evangelical teaching that faith is a God-given, spiritual, inner, and personal matter would have led to a wave of religious toleration accompanying the Reformation. This never materialized. Instead, a tsunami of intolerance and violence swept away thousands of people into prison, exile and martyrdom. What happened?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6cKLO7Mcz4?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"new\"><strong>Lecture #2: <\/strong>Tuesday<strong>, October 31<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u201cCompel them to come in\u201d: The Theology of Intolerance Examined<\/strong><br \/>\nProtestant theologians, both Lutheran and Reformed, soon became champions of state churches that required all subjects and citizens to attend their churches and swear allegiance to state-sanctioned confessions of faith. How did these Christian theologians justify coercion, torture and even execution in the name of true faith?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyAoPeQFZPc?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"new\"><strong>Lecture #3: Tuesday, October 31<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Hiding in Plain Sight: Anabaptism and Toleration in Switzerland<\/strong><br \/>\nAnabaptism was officially outlawed in every state of the Swiss Confederation, with all Reformed pastors and civil officials under oath to report violations. Nevertheless, Anabaptist communities survived into the seventeenth century. Archival records shed important light on the phenomenon of de facto toleration that made Anabaptist survival possible in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bx08xY184do\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) marked the 500th\u00a0anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on October 30 and 31 with a special lecture series delivered by the world\u2019s foremost scholar on Swiss Anabaptism.\u00a0 Dr. C. Arnold Snyder\u00a0presented\u00a0 the three-part series, titled, \u201cFaith and Toleration: A Reformation Debate Revisited.\u201d\u00a0Snyder, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Waterloo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[885,318,616,556,865,890,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6660,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/6660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}