The History of Christianity in the Reformation Era

This was a very good performance and subject that not only approached the Reformation as such, but also looked to fit it in the wider world of both its time and ours. It set a good pace and didn't leave the areas of Western Europe alone for long before cycling back.

Professor Gregory is an amazing lecturer, no contest, the audio edition wins hands down! That said, the print/pdf version is incredibly useful to recap, to revise!

The structure Professor Gregory set this lectures in. Should my attention flag for a bit -- which it sometimes did, albeit only when something unrelated to the book distracted me - his repeated recaps at the beginning & end of each lecture were very helpful reminders, and I'd then go back to a missed bit for a proper re-listen! This "story" is in and of itself incredibly "exciting," the stuff of human "high drama" often only known to the public via television series (aka art imitating life). As well, at least for me personally, It's pivotal to understand the past in order to better comprehend the present, how these events & trends have come to shape our own world as well.

What I most like about lecture structure is comparative presentation & analysis. Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Evangelism, i.e. the evolution of a united Christianity towards pluralism of faiths in the early-Modern Era has a deep contemporary socio-political-historical context. It's all quite fascinating, looking back on it all from our times. Professor Gregory follows each trend individually in multiple consecutive lectures, then catches up on the same vis-a-vis all the others. Then, towards the end, he brings all these diverse threads together in a brilliant analytical summary focusing on their impact more broadly speaking.

What I find most intellectually stimulating is multiple times Professor Gregory presents changes as they were likely to have been felt, experienced by the contemporary public, vs how we might see & reflect upon them with historical hindsight, through the lens of our contemporary "values" perspective. Wish I had Dr Gregory as one of my history professors in college!

I stumbled into this lecture series quite by accident & and have so enjoyed it, not to mentioned learned so much from it that I'm immediately following it up with another in this lecture series, "American Religious History"! Well done Audible!

i loved it
read it during Easter, nicest thing I did today 2015 love it.

Protestants and anyone who likes to put down Catholicism and Catholics; a big audience, it seems.

When the author/narrator/professor stated in the first lesson that the Reformation happened to replace a corrupt Church. While no one disagrees individuals in Church hierarchy, including a number of Popes, had some corrupt practices, and that the Church itself had some systemic corruption, I expected a scholarly review of the facts, issues, key debates, participants, short term outcomes, and longer term impacts, both on Christianity and on the secular world, especially the Western nations (Europe & the Americas) and the Near Eastern nations, where Christianity held prominence. Instead, the opening session expressed an educated (and admittedly biased) opinion of the Reformation. TV & movies already have a big Catholic-bashing party going. So, thanks, but no thanks.

Sadly, academically disappointing.

Disappointment, BIG TIME.

While this does not turn my opinion of Prof. Brad Gregory totally negative (impressive credentials), it makes me critically hesitant with regard to his courses (books articles, etc.). For the future, his work falls far lower on my Audible/Great Courses choice priorities.