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By the time people hear this, you’ll have already been here, but I look forward to meeting you. HODGES: And we’re looking forward to having you here Brigham Young University this week. JENNIFER POWELL McNUTT: Thank you! It’s a pleasure to be part of this. * * *īLAIR HODGES: Jennifer Powell McNutt, welcome to the Maxwell Institute Podcast. Send questions and comments about this and other episodes to me at And please, if you haven’t already, take a moment to rate and review the show in iTunes or leave a comment on our Facebook page, or tell a friend about the show. Stay tuned for those.īut right now, it’s Jennifer Powell McNutt on the Bible and the Reformation. And on the podcast, we still have interviews coming up with Laurie Maffly-Kipp and Grant Wacker, two scholars who also participated in The Living Reformation conference. Videos of Jennifer Powell McNutt’s presentation, and presentations from other guests will be available on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks. Thanks to everybody who came out and joined us.

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This episode is the final one in our series about the Reformation in conjunction with our conference, “The Living Reformation: 500 Years of Martin Luther.” The conference was a big success. What’s it like studying about Christianity in an academic setting as a Christian? Jennifer and I spent a little time talking about what it’s like teaching at Wheaton and how Christian history can sometimes unsettle people in their faith. Jennifer Powell McNutt is an Associate Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College, a Protestant school with a Christian student body. For example, the Bible didn’t solve all disagreements among Protestants about church sacraments like baptism, marriage, and ordination.

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If Protestants believed that the Bible was the best source of doctrinal truth, they were still left with the problem of how to read it, how to interpret it. In this episode, Jennifer Powell McNutt talks about the Bible during the Reformation. They talked about Martin Luther’s life and the Reformation more broadly.

In the previous two episodes we heard from Craig Harline and Brad Gregory. His efforts to bring reform to the church wound up leading to his own excommunication and the Reformation was off and running. Martin Luther believed the Bible proved that the Catholic church had gone astray. īLAIR HODGES: It’s the Maxwell Institute Podcast. Her most recent book is called The Peoples Book: The Reformation and the Bible. She is the author of Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, and the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation.

Jennifer Powell McNutt is associate professor of theology and history of Christianity at Wheaton College. She lays out some of that back-and-forth history here, and also talks about her experiences teaching Christian students at Wheaton College. McNutt has written about how Christians grappled with the Bible’s words about Christian sacraments like baptism, marriage, and ordination. The “people’s book” was revered by different people with different ways of interpreting. If Protestants believed the Bible was the supreme source of doctrinal truth, they, like Catholics, were still left with the problem of how to interpret it. In the previous two episodes we heard from Craig Harline and Brad Gregory, talking about Martin Luther’s life and the Reformation more broadly. His efforts to bring reform to the church wound up leading to his excommunication and the Reformation was off and running. Martin Luther believed the Bible proved that the Catholic Church had gone astray.

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