Professor Barth you are very easy to listen to. Your lectures are great compared to some academic “gaslighters” or how shall I say it differently “full of hot air” “professors.” I can’t wait till you put your American history classes on you tube. Eventually there will be an academic/learning civil war and elementary academic classes will be online and students will have a wide variety of classes, professors and universities to choose from. The grading can easily be accomplished by the student going to the classroom and have proctored monitors (grad students) to ensure they are not cheating. The proctors will collect the papers and send them electronically to appropriate graders The local grad students can also act as tutors locally.
Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you've enjoyed the lectures. I too am very excited about the prospects for the future of education: I'm optimistic so long as speech remains free! Online education + censorship and restricted speech would be a disaster, but online education + the free flow of ideas and information could really lead to a renaissance - at least amongst those, like yourself, who are most interested in participating. The current university model is outmoded and will eventually become irrelevant.
Yes he was Puritan. The Puritans in New England also outlawed the celebration of Christmas; they argued that it was a pagan holiday, and you were fined if you celebrated it. Cromwell ultimately alienated some of the Puritans, however, because he allowed a fairly broad religious toleration within the Army. He also declined to make Presbyterianism the only sanctioned religion. Cromwell argued, correctly, that for the republican cause to succeed, they needed to build a broad coalition.
The Puritans encompassed a number of different groups. Before the 1640s, many Puritans wished to retain the Church of England but purify it through various doctrinal reforms. Other Puritans were Separatists who wished to separate entirely from the Church of England. Of that group, some were Presbyterian, others were Congregationalist. The difference between Presbyterian and Congregationalist was mostly in church government and the selection of elders (i.e., by a presbytery or by the votes of each particular congregation). Beyond that, there were still more divisions: most Congregationalists supported infant baptism, but some Congregationalists rejected infant baptism in favor of credo-baptism (believers' baptism). People in all of these denominated could be accurately grouped under the broader label of Puritanism.
Great series ! Very interesting. Thank you Professor Barth
Thanks for watching!
Professor Barth you are very easy to listen to. Your lectures are great compared to some academic “gaslighters” or how shall I say it differently “full of hot air” “professors.”
I can’t wait till you put your American history classes on you tube.
Eventually there will be an academic/learning civil war and elementary academic classes will be online and students will have a wide variety of classes, professors and universities to choose from.
The grading can easily be accomplished by the student going to the classroom and have proctored monitors (grad students) to ensure they are not cheating. The proctors will collect the papers and send them electronically to appropriate graders
The local grad students can also act as tutors locally.
Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you've enjoyed the lectures. I too am very excited about the prospects for the future of education: I'm optimistic so long as speech remains free! Online education + censorship and restricted speech would be a disaster, but online education + the free flow of ideas and information could really lead to a renaissance - at least amongst those, like yourself, who are most interested in participating. The current university model is outmoded and will eventually become irrelevant.
Great series. I’m enjoying following along. I remember learning that Cromwell was a sort of radical Puritan type and actually outlawed Christmas.
Yes he was Puritan. The Puritans in New England also outlawed the celebration of Christmas; they argued that it was a pagan holiday, and you were fined if you celebrated it. Cromwell ultimately alienated some of the Puritans, however, because he allowed a fairly broad religious toleration within the Army. He also declined to make Presbyterianism the only sanctioned religion. Cromwell argued, correctly, that for the republican cause to succeed, they needed to build a broad coalition.
@@ProfessorBarth Does Puritanism come from Presbyterianism? I thought they were two separate Christian sects.
The Puritans encompassed a number of different groups. Before the 1640s, many Puritans wished to retain the Church of England but purify it through various doctrinal reforms. Other Puritans were Separatists who wished to separate entirely from the Church of England. Of that group, some were Presbyterian, others were Congregationalist. The difference between Presbyterian and Congregationalist was mostly in church government and the selection of elders (i.e., by a presbytery or by the votes of each particular congregation). Beyond that, there were still more divisions: most Congregationalists supported infant baptism, but some Congregationalists rejected infant baptism in favor of credo-baptism (believers' baptism). People in all of these denominated could be accurately grouped under the broader label of Puritanism.
@@ProfessorBarth I see. Thanks so much for your reply. I’m enjoying the series, and looking forward to Locke.