The Many Purposes of the Book of Common Prayer. Deal 1. The Prayer Book Society Lecture.

Here there is a Lecture by Alec Ryrie from Durham University given at St Mary the Virgin Church in Oxford for the Prayer Book Society (PBS) upon the Day of Commemoration for the Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer.

Proffesor Alexander Ryrie FBA British historian of Protestant Christianity, specializing in the history of England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was appointed Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in 2018. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor of the History of Christianity, in the field of the history of the Reformation and of Protestantism more widely. The English Reformation and since then ranging further into the history of the Protestant tradition in England, Scotland and internationally. Persistent themes being such as emotional history of religion; religion and politics, war, violence and martyrdom; the history of pious practice and devotion; and histories of religious unorthodoxy, including magic, radical dissent and ‘atheism’. He is an author of many books and learned articles on the Reformation.

Proffessor Alec Ryrie studied History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1990-3) and Reformation Studies at St Andrews (1993-4) before completing a DPhil in Theology at Oxford (1996-99) under the supervision of Diarmaid MacCulloch. He taught in the History department at the University of Birmingham from 1999-2006 before moving to Durham in 2007. He served as Head of Department at Durham University from 2012-15. He is lead convenor of the History of Christianity seminar. I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.

The Lecture is given in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin for the Prayer Book Society.

My video was made on Tuesday 21st of March in the year of our Lord 2023.

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