{"podcast":{"title":"The Rise of the Protestants","slug":"the-rise-of-the-protestants-6456889","podcast_index_feed_id":6456889,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/shaughanholt/","website_url":"https://shaughanholt.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e5d064cd-53b2-4725-bd6f-d43ea043d7e8/The-Rise-of-the-Protestants-1400-x1400.jpg","author":"Shaughan Holt","episode_count":34,"summary":"Welcome to my podcast. This podcast examines the rise of Protestantism, its challenge to established traditions, its transformation of core beliefs, and its role in initiating global change. England’s Nonconformist and Separatist movements are central to this narrative, and their influence continues to shape the broader Christian tradition. By examining these movements within the broader context of Christian history, we can understand how they altered doctrine, influenced Western Christianity, and intensified the enduring division between Roman Catholicism and emerging Protestant groups. The series follows a chronological timeline, beginning in early 16th-century Germany with Martin Luther’s excommunication and concluding a century later on England’s southern coast. The initial 12-episode series highlights the contributions of Beza, Vermigli, Calvin, Tyndale, Knox, and Robert Browne, who is often called the father of Congregationalism. The series does not seek to persuade listeners or promote any specific belief system. Instead, it aims to explore the events, ideas, and conflicts that shaped one of the most important times in European religious history. Throughout the series, the…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T16:19:26.108567+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rise-of-the-protestants-6456889"},"episode":{"title":"Series 2 Episode 7 - From Refugees to Millenary and the New King (Transcript  added).","slug":"series-2-episode-7-from-refugees-to-millenary-and-the-new-king-transcript-added","published_at":"2025-05-24T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rise-of-the-protestants-6456889/series-2-episode-7-from-refugees-to-millenary-and-the-new-king-transcript-added","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rise-of-the-protestants-6456889","url":"https://shaughanholt.captivate.fm/episode/king-james-i-and-the-millenary-petition-and-the-sandwich-connection","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/444b1d3b-b13b-4462-a896-d96378fe47c3.mp3","summary":"Regular episode • Season 2 • 7 • Series 2 Episode 7 - From Refugees to Millenary and the New King (Transcript added). © 20 26 The Rise of the Protestants., Author, Shaughan Holt. Artwork • Funeral of Queen Elizabeth I - April 28, 1603. Published by janetwertman Music • Drop, drop, slow tears. Sung by the Cambridge Chorale, in Ely Cathedral. From a Poem by Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650), Composer is Orlando Gibbons 1583—1625). Drop, drop, Slow tears, is a devotional reflection sung at Passiontide, but not specific to that season. Orlando Gibbons, joined text by the Jacobean poet and clergyman Phineas Fletcher to a hymn tune, Song 46, which was published in 1623. Interestingly, the poet and composer are linked by their connection with King’s College Cambridge, where Gibbons was a chorister and Fletcher a student. By the 1610s, Gibbons was the leading composer and organist in England. His career was cut short when he died , aged 41, in 1625, which is thought to have been caused by the Plague. Passiontide, in the Christian liturgical year, is a name for the last two weeks of Lent, beginning on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, long celebrated as Passion Sunday, and continuing through Lazarus Saturday. It commemorates the suffering of Christ , Latin \"passio\" meaning is “suffering”. Music 2 • Prevent Us, O Lord - Sung by Recordare Chamber Choir. Composer William Byrd. c. 1540-1623 Manuscript: 1580 in Dow Partbooks , no. 58. The Dow Partbooks is a collection of five partbooks in Oxford around 1580. The collection includes choral and also instrumental pieces. Robert Dow was a trained calligrapher and the books are unusually easy to read among Tudor manuscripts. © 20 26 The Rise of the Protestants., Author, Shaughan Holt. \" All rights reserved. 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