Alec Ryrie

(1971) Historian

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Alec Ryrie is a historian.

Quick Facts About Alec Ryrie

Born: September 20, 1971
Profession: Historian

About Alec Ryrie

[Wikidata] British historian of Protestant Christianity... | [Wikipedia] Alexander Gray Ryrie is a British historian of Protestant Christianity, specializing in the history of England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was Professor of Divinity at Gresham College from 2018 to 2022. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.

Quotes by Alec Ryrie

“Doubts crept up on them unawares, seeping to the surface or erupting without warning. At the least, the language of temptation tells…

Alec Ryrie

Atheism

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“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now…

Alec Ryrie

Atheism

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“Luther’s breakthrough had a dazzling, corrosive simplicity to it. The power of those twin principles, “faith alone” and “Scripture alone,” lay in…

Alec Ryrie

Christian life

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“In the 1640s, a formerly pious London teenager named Sarah Wight suffered four years of spiritual agonies. As she recalled: ‘I could…

Alec Ryrie

Christianity

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“What makes Marlowe’s defiance and even D’Amville’s anticlerical contempt compelling is their moral edge. And in their very different ways, Acosta, Coornhert,…

Alec Ryrie

Atheism