Due to unforeseen circumstances, our scheduled speaker for the Theology on Tap session scheduled for Tuesday, December 12, 2017, is unable to travel to Boston. The session is cancelled and will be rescheduled after Christmas.

Historian and Memoirist Carlos M. N. Eire concludes the 2017 season of Theology on Tap with reflections on: “Transforming the Supernatural in the Reformation.”

Around the world people are commemorating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s contributions to the continental Reformation. Prof. Eire’s scholarship shows however that the Reformation was not one historical event but a series of confluences intersecting across and beyond Europe and through decades of historic transformation.

One of the most significant changes brought about by the Protestant Reformation was a redefinition of the relation between the natural and supernatural realms, which amounted to a redefinition of religion itself. How did this redefinition shape the various churches created in this era? How did it affect the Church of England? How does it affect us today?

Prof. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including most recently the magisterial Reformations: The Early Modern World, which won the R. R. Hawkins Prize for Best Book of the Year from the American Publishers Association, as well as the award for Best Book in the Humanities. He is also the author of the best-selling memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, which won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Attendees wishing to eat dinner first are strongly encouraged to arrive early and please inform the club that you are part of the Church of the Advent party for the evening. 

Evening Prayer will be said at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, at 5:30 pm. All are welcome to say the daily office together and then process from the parish church to Carrie Nation.

Please direct any questions to Father Jeff Hanson and follow us @adventboston