Kennel Charles Endowed Lecture at Eastern Mennonite School

As a part of Anabaptism 1525-2025, a five part lecture series, Dr. John Roth will give the annual Kennel-Charles Endowed Lecture and speak about “Restoration or Renewal? Early Anabaptism and its Reformation Context.” Although sixteenth-century Anabaptists based their teachings on Scripture and the example of the early church, the Catholic Church and Protestant Reformers alike regarded their ideas as so threatening to social order that they responded with harsh punishments, including the death penalty. This lecture will reflect on the distinctive insights of the Anabaptist movement while also noting its deep debts to medieval Catholicism and the emerging Protestant Reformation.

All lectures, including this one will be free and open to all.