Religious Imagery and Gender Politics in Protestant Reform

Joe Heschmeyer examines whether the Protestant Reformers were truly the bold, uncompromising figures that they’re commonly thought to be. Transcription: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery; I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to address today this idea that the Protestant reformers, I’m going to focus particularly on Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox for reasons that’ll become clear very soon, whether they really are the sort of uncompromising figures we think of them as because there’s this idea that these were people who were bold enough to proclaim the gosp...