# The History and Legacy of Protestant Christianity

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Alec Ryrie FBA
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Religion
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/history-and-legacy-protestant-christianity)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

It seems obvious now, but it hasn’t always. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the old consensus that slavery was a mere fact of life, a tolerable evil, broke down, as Protestant activists opposed slavery ever more forcefully – and as other Protestants defended it ever more idealistically. As this lecture will explore, the result was not only the end of legal slavery but profound changes in Protestant Christianity which resonate to the present.

## Lectures

1. [How we Learned that Slavery is Wrong](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-and-legacy-protestant-christianity/b3b0d1ed85a1) (YouTube)
2. [The Dreams and Nightmares of Christian Liberalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-and-legacy-protestant-christianity/4c7511113484) (YouTube)
3. [The World's Local Religion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-and-legacy-protestant-christianity/6a699eeee470) (YouTube)
4. [What Would Jesus Do? Christian Culture Wars in the Modern West](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-and-legacy-protestant-christianity/88fd83216260) (YouTube)