Martin Luther And Religion In America Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:30 pm at the Town & Country Resort
$5 admission for non-members of Osher.
Professor Randall Balmer will be giving a talk in the Lamoille Community OLLI series this Wednesday,
The talk will cover Martin Luther’s challenge to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church 500 years ago, which ushered in the modern age and its suspicions of authority and institutions. Nowhere has this played out more completely than in North America. This lecture summarizes the effects of the Protestant Reformation, especially on the religious landscape of North America.
A prize-winning historian and Emmy Award nominee, Randall Balmer earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985 and taught as Professor of American Religious History at Columbia University for twenty-seven years before becoming the Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College in 2012; two years later, he was named Dartmouth Professor in the Arts & Sciences, and in 2015 he was named to the John Phillips Chair in Religion, the oldest endowed professorship at Dartmouth. In 2014, he was named the inaugural director of the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth.
Please arrive as close to 1:00 as possible. The lecture starts promptly at 1:30. There will be refreshments following the question and answer period.
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