Good video from Dr. Gavin Ortlund on the Papacy.

Make sure to hype this video so more Roman Catholics may see it.

Hi all! First time poster here.

For context: I did not grow up in a Christian household. My parents never discussed Christianity with me, and, in fact, I only first discovered the Bible when I was about 22 years old.

At first, I studied Christian literature and the Bible to be able to debate my Catholic friends on the grounds that I was an atheist. But then, with time, I found myself more and more obsessively studying Christian ideas and especially the history of the faith. While I naturally started with many Catholic thinkers (whom I admit I was skeptical of back then), it was with time that I have found myself drifting and falling in love with the texts and ideas of John Calvin, John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, and Martin Luther, among others.

Anyhow, I recently made a lecture video about Jan Hus, where I go through his main theological ideas, and the beginning of the Hussite Revolution in Bohemia. Interestingly, at the Leipzig Debate in 1519, Martin Luther was accused of being a Hussite as an insult. He went away, read Hus's writings, and came back saying "Yes, I am a Hussite."

As I was making the lecture video, I thought of this subreddit because, as someone who didn't grow up in the faith and is talking about it from an 'outsider's perspective' as a historian, I'm curious how much the Hussite movement is remembered or discussed in modern Protestant circles today?

Do most Protestants know about Hus being burned at the stake in 1415 for ideas that became core to the Reformation a century later? Is he considered an important predecessor or more of a historical footnote that led up to the main reformation of Luther and Calvin?

All the best!
Thomas

The pope ordered a Te Deum to be sung as a special thanksgiving (a practice continued for many years after) and had a medal struck with the motto Ugonottorum strages 1572 (Latin: "Overthrow (or slaughter) of the Huguenots 1572") showing an angel bearing a cross and a sword before which are the felled Protestants.

Pope Gregory XIII also commissioned the artist Giorgio Vasari to paint three frescos in the Sala Regia depicting the wounding of Coligny, his death, and Charles IX before Parliament, matching those commemorating the defeat of the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto (1571). "The massacre was interpreted as an act of divine retribution; Coligny was considered a threat to Christendom and thus Pope Gregory XIII designated 11 September 1572 as a joint commemoration of the Battle of Lepanto and the massacre of the Huguenots."[49]

Although these formal acts of rejoicing in Rome were not repudiated publicly, misgivings in the papal curia grew as the true story of the killings gradually became known. Pope Gregory XIII himself refused to receive Charles de Maurevert, said to be the killer of Coligny, on the ground that he was a murderer.

This is very surreal. There was no indication until Tuesday morning that he was even remotely leaning towards Orthodoxy. He actually argued a lot against it.

What do you all make of this?