All Outputs (16)

Four axes of mission: Conversion and the purposes of mission in Protestant history (2022)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A., & Trim, D. (2022). Four axes of mission: Conversion and the purposes of mission in Protestant history. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 32, 113-133. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080440122000020

This article offers a framework for historical analysis of the goals of Protestant missionary projects. ‘Conversion’ in Protestantism is not clearly defined, is liable to be falsified and may (in some missionary views) require preparatory work of var... Read More about Four axes of mission: Conversion and the purposes of mission in Protestant history.

Seeking the Seekers (2021)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2021). Seeking the Seekers. Studies in Church History, 57, 185-209. https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2021.10

The Seekers, a supposed sect which flourished in late 1640s England, have been generally neglected by historians, with the exception of Quaker historiography, in which the Seekers play a pivotal but supporting role. This article argues that the Seeke... Read More about Seeking the Seekers.

A Half-Century Retrospect: The View from 2069 (2019)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2019). A Half-Century Retrospect: The View from 2069. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 50(1), 361-366

Prologue: When did the English Reformation happen? A historiographical curiosity and its interpretative consequences (2017)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2017). Prologue: When did the English Reformation happen? A historiographical curiosity and its interpretative consequences. Etudes épistémè, https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.1845

The Protestant Apolitical Tradition and its Legacy (2017)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2017). The Protestant Apolitical Tradition and its Legacy. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (Internet), 108(1), 234-244. https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2017-0126

'Protestantism' as a historical category (2016)
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Ryrie, A. (2016). 'Protestantism' as a historical category. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 26, 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080440116000050

The term ‘Protestant’ itself is a historical accident, but the category of western Christians who have separated from Rome since 1517 remains a useful one. The confessionalisation thesis, which has dominated recent Reformation historiography, instead... Read More about 'Protestantism' as a historical category.

The Psalms and Confrontation in English and Scottish Protestantism (2010)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2010). The Psalms and Confrontation in English and Scottish Protestantism. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (Internet), 101, 114-137. https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2010-101-1-114

Paths not taken in the British Reformations (2009)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2009). Paths not taken in the British Reformations. Historical Journal, 52(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x08007280

Traditional historiographies of the Reformation, seeing it as a unified, directed transition from Catholicism to Protestantism, seem increasingly untenable. This article looks in detail at three individuals from the British Reformation whose careers... Read More about Paths not taken in the British Reformations.

Calvin and Ecumenism (2009)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2009). Calvin and Ecumenism

John Calvin has a justified reputation as an aggressive, divisive theologian, but in his own terms he was an ecumenist, doing more than anyone else to forge Reformed Protestantism into a single body (against Rome). This article considers some of the... Read More about Calvin and Ecumenism.

The Reinvention of Devotion in the British Reformations (2008)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2008). The Reinvention of Devotion in the British Reformations. Studies in Church History, 44: Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, 87-105

Congregations, Conventicles and the Nature of Early Scottish Protestantism (2006)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2006). Congregations, Conventicles and the Nature of Early Scottish Protestantism. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 191(1), 45-76. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj006

England's Last Medieval Heresy Hunt: Gloucestershire 1540 (2005)
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Ryrie, A. (2005). England's Last Medieval Heresy Hunt: Gloucestershire 1540. Midland History, 30, 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1179/mdh.2005.30.1.37

Reform without frontiers in the last years of Catholic Scotland (2004)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2004). Reform without frontiers in the last years of Catholic Scotland. The English Historical Review, 119(480), 27-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.27

Stephen Gardiner and the Making of a Protestant Villain. (2003)
Journal Article
Riordan, M., & Ryrie, A. (2003). Stephen Gardiner and the Making of a Protestant Villain. The Sixteenth century journal, 34(4), 1039-1063

Divine Kingship and Royal Theology in Henry VIII's Reformation (2002)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2002). Divine Kingship and Royal Theology in Henry VIII's Reformation. Reformation, 7, 49-77

The strange death of Lutheran England (2002)
Journal Article
Ryrie, A. (2002). The strange death of Lutheran England. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 53(1), 64-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002204690100879x

A Lutheran settlement was the natural outcome for a politically imposed Reformation such as that of Henry VIII. Some aspects of his settlement pointed in that direction, and English evangelicalism during his reign leaned more towards Lutheranism than... Read More about The strange death of Lutheran England.