REFORC
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REFORC
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The Reformation Research Consortium is a unique and international association focusing on Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-ca. 1700).
Jason D. Edwards examines the Reformed English Puritan John Flavel’s (ca. 1627–1691) theology of death through close analysis of his writings on mortality, dying, and eternal destiny.

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@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

#rht #reformed #historical #theology #puritan
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In his book Manuel Martínez-Ortega examines particular religious trends, texts and tendencies of Valdes’ time and context in order to identify, through the analysis of his writings, the particular characteristics and emphases of his eclecticism.

tinyurl.com/ykfjre6y

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Jennifer Powell Mcnutt and Herman Selderhuis have been awarded with the Sixteenth Century Society’s John Tedeschi Prize for the best reference work: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation.

They would like to express their gratitute to all the contributors!

@oxunipress.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Did you know that a REFORC membership will bring you certain benefits, like: subscription to the Journal of Early Modern Christianity @degruyterbrill.bsky.social news dissemination and a reduced annual REFORC Conference registration fee?

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October 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Within the framework of a research project aimed at a systematic reconstruction of the ideology of Papacy 1431–1549, this volume takes the Renaissance Church as an institution promoting an ambivalent and complex project of religious reform...

tinyurl.com/5duryspe

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This book presents the first fin-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the “first German humanist” Johannes Reuchlin’s study of Kabbalah and cantillation...

tinyurl.com/4ubfkdss

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Erasmus and Luther – The Bible as medium of change?

CCLR-seminar with Professor Marius Mjaaland, University of Oslo. November 3, 15:00-17:00 in hybrid format.

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October 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This @lectio-institute.bsky.social Junior Initiative explores the production of knowledge in the early modern era, critically examining what defined knowledge as “academic” and why certain forms of inquiry were excluded from universities.

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@jarrikvanderbiest.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
What a fantastic place to open #REFORC2026 in Wrocław. Thank you for the warm welcome, Aleksandra Lipińska (Cologne) and Katharina Opalka (Bonn)!

#earlymodernchristianity #materiality #aulaleopoldina #conference
October 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Call for Proposals:
Writing of the Transcendental in Egodocuments

conference at the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Kraków, March 12-14, 2026.

tinyurl.com/4fk5w4pm
September 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Welcome to #REFORC2026 and to present your Early Modern Christianity research!

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September 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We congratulate Riccarda Suitner (University of Rome Sapienza) for winning the prestigious Premio Desiderio Pirovano 2024 Prize for her book "Venice and the Radical Reformation. Italian Anabaptism and Antitrinitarianism in European Context", published in our R5AS series.

tinyurl.com/f2zut4u5
September 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Today in Prešov, Ulrich Wien (Landau) presented the new REFORC series “Studies of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe”, published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social inviting scholars to submit manuscript proposals:

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September 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Welcome to Portland! You are cordially invited to attend the REFORC supported session at the 2025 conference of the Sixteenth Century Society, entitled “Bibles and Books: Sources of Reformation Theology”, November 1.

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September 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Today we are at the University of Prešov for the international conference "Transfer of Knowledge and Scholarship in the academic world of Early Modern Central Europe", which is now being opened by Rector Prof. Peter Kónya
September 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fluchtpunkt 1525? Internationales Symposium

Religiöse, politische und soziale Empörung und ihre Medien vor und um 1500. Symposium der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten in Zusammenarbeit mit dem KIT Karlsruhe, 6.-8. November 2025.

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September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yesterday, during the opening of the academic year at TUA in Apeldoorn, the completely revised fifth edition of the "Handboek Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis" was presented. Wonderful to see so many people together who made this possible! Thank you all! (Also those who are not on the picture).
September 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Zwischen Duldung und Teilhabe. Täufer und ihr Obrigkeitsverständnis

Internationale Tagung in Emden im Rahmen des Editionsprojekts „Das Ringen um Integration und Selbstbehauptung: Der Briefwechsel der ostfriesischen Mennonitin Antje Brons, geb. Cremer ten Doornkaat (1810–1902)“

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August 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Synod of Dordrecht (1618–1619) has monumental significance for Reformed churches. While officially assembled for the provinces of the Netherlands, it gathered an international cast of delegates to solidify a pan-European accord on Reformed doctrine.

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August 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Die Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten vergibt ein Qualifikationsstipendium, Mit diesem Stipendium soll die Diskussion auf dem Fachgebiet ökumenischer Theologie bereichert und vertieft werden zum Themenfeld: Die „Confessio Augustana“ im ökumenischen Gespräch.

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August 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
@emodir.bsky.social is planning for the upcoming RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026), a series of panels analyzing the concept of the devil in the context of religious dissent and announced the call for papers:

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July 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The Calvin Studies Society (CSS) invites proposals for short, twenty-minute paper presentations for its biennial colloquium to be held in Birmingham, AL from 19-21 March 2026. The conference theme is “Calvin And Creation”.

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July 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Editor meeting of Unio Cum Christo, just before the official start of the European Academy of Religion at the University of Vienna, discussing future issues of the International Journal of #Reformed #Theology and #Life.

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM