St Antholin Lecture 2024: Evangelicals before Evangelicalism: The use of ‘evangelical’ in the early English Reformation
This year’s St Antholin Lecture on Puritan Divinity will be delivered live on the Church Society Facebook page by Rachel Ciano, who is the Dean of Academic Development at Mary Andrews College and lecturer in Christianity in History at Sydney Missionary and Bible College in Australia. Recently, she was a 2023 Anglican Deaconess Ministries Senior Fellow. She speaks locally and internationally on the intersection between history, theology, and everyday life. Her research and publications are wide-ranging and particularly focus on the sixteenth-century Reformation period.
The subject of this year's lecture is "Evangelicals before Evangelicalism: The use of 'evangelical' in the early English Reformation." This is a fascinating topic on how the much-disputed word evangelical first came to be used by enemies of the Reformation, and Rachel will explore what it meant and implied during this formative period in our history. Can you guess who was the first English person to describe people as evangelical?
Please join us on the Church Society Facebook page for the livestream of this lecture — and a chance to ask questions afterwards — on Thursday 7th November at 12 noon (UK time).
Previous St Antholin Lectures that have been hosted by Church Society can be watched on our YouTube channel here.
Previous St Antholin Lectures have also been published by Latimer Trust and can be purchased here.