By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 August 2023
The “First Red Scare”: America and Communism in 1919
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Tag Archives: Protestantism
The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins
Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context
Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine
The Popish Plot and its Legacy
Al-Qaeda’s Statement Twenty-One Years on From 9/11
Intelligence and the English Civil Wars
The Trial of an English King
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2022
“Judgement of Charles I,” by Ladislaus Bakalowicz, 1650
The Impact of Plague: From Antiquity to the Present
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 March 2021
Almost exactly a year ago, the British government announced the first lockdown to counter the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and around the same time such measures were adopted in almost every other country. With Britain having now vaccinated nearly half the country, including all of the most vulnerable, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson having set out a timetable for the lifting of restrictions, it is possible to think of the post-COVID 19 situation and to wonder about how or if it will be different to what came before. Continue reading
The Munster Millenarians: Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 February 2021
Execution of Jan Beuckelszoon // Illustration in a book by Lambertus Hortensius
In 1534, shortly after the onset of the Protestant Reformation, a radical sect from this new movement, the Anabaptists, seized the city of Munster in Germany and governed it for sixteen months as a millenarian cult in a manner so alarming it managed to bring together Catholic and Lutheran forces to put it down. The experience had a profound influence not only on the development of Anabaptism thereafter, but on the manner in which the Reformation more generally unfolded. Continue reading
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