Watch Kennel Charles Lecture with Dr. John Roth

Updated Article 2/17/25

As a part of Anabaptism 1525-2025, a five part lecture series, Dr. John Roth will gave the annual Kennel-Charles Endowed Lecture and spoke about “Restoration or Renewal? Early Anabaptism and its Reformation Context.” Although sixteenth-century Anabaptists based their teachings on Scripture and the example of the early church, the Catholic Church and Protestant Reformers alike regarded their ideas as so threatening to social order that they responded with harsh punishments, including the death penalty. This lecture will reflect on the distinctive insights of the Anabaptist movement while also noting its deep debts to medieval Catholicism and the emerging Protestant Reformation.

Watch Dr. Roth’s chapel at EMS on January 31.

Watch the Kennel Charles Lecture, given by Dr. Roth at EMS on January 31.