The Reformation: one of the greatest ruptures in European history, a rupture that permanently split the church, triggered wars, created new city-states, and even led, in the opinion of many experts, to the Enlightenment, Science, and the secularization of the West.

It’s such a big deal we’re going to take two whole episodes to examine it—and still, only scratch the surface.

How did one man go from a pious local friar in an obscure backwater town to the leader of a global movement that ripped Christianity in two (and then three, then four, and ultimately thousands of Protestant denominations!).

And what is the real legacy of this thing we call The Reformation?

Hosted by Dr. Lynn Cohick (AJ 64): Center for Women in Leadership, Northern Seminary

Women played an important role in the establishment of the Protestant Reformation. Expert Church Historian, Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt, shares insight from the valuable contribution that women made to the protestant movement. Many women and their significant contributions have been underrepresented in pages of history. Listen in to this episode to get a bigger picture of the valuable contributions by many women.

Hosted by Dr. Justin Bailey (Dec. 1, 2021): Andreas Center, Dordt University

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with theologian and historian Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt about the relationship between science and theology. Together we discuss:

– How the narrative of a conflict between faith and science developed, and how this story of obscures important historical realities, especially during the Reformation

– The relationship between science and theology as well as between God’s two books: the book of creation and the book of Scripture.

– How we think about scientific investigation given the tension between suspicion (because of human sin) and confidence (because of the divine image and the reliability of human faculties)

– “Epistemic trespassing” and how pastors can live with the burden of being expected to weigh in on scientific issues, and how they build bridges between science and theology.

Hosted by Todd Wilson and Zachary Wagner (March 8, 2021)

On today's episode, we are joined by CPT Fellow Jennifer Powell McNutt. She serves as the Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College and is an ordained minister in the PCUSA. We discuss her story of family, faith, and education, including discerning a call to ministry as a woman. We also explore some of her research on the Enlightenment, Calvin, and Reformed tradition's legacy of the pastor theologians in Calvin's Geneva.

What if we reconsidered Calvin and Calvin’s prioritizing of God’s power and sovereignty from the perspective of what Calvin was, a refugee, and from the hermeneutic of what his context makes his work, liberation theology?

This is the first half of a conversation with Jennifer Powell McNutt, professor at Wheaton College and specialist on Calvin, the French Reformation, and the history of the Reformed tradition. We learn about Dr. McNutt's early life, how she was drawn to church history, her academic journey, research on Enlightenment-era Geneva, and the relevance of Calvin as a refugee.Description goes here

This is the second half of our conversation with Jennifer Powell McNutt. We learn about the romance of "secularization" (listen to find out!), McNuttshell ministries, church history as family history, bridging the gap between the church and the academy, and some recommended reading on Reformation history.