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Anna Marie Johnson

Anna Marie Johnson

Associate Professor of Reformation History at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; author of "Reforming Faith: The Wittenberg Circle and the Reformation of Christian Life"

Jul 22, 2026

13:56
... kind of explain that.
13:58
Yeah.
13:59
Well, um, I'll say you can draw the Wittenberg Circle smaller or larger.
14:04
So this, my Wittenberg Circle is sort of a narrower circle, and I know you've had Robert Kolb on.
14:09
Um, and he does a much broader sort of take on the Wittenberg Circle and all of its influences.
14:14
But I, I'm looking at m- um, basically the people who worked most closely together in the 1520s to get the Reformation established.
14:22
Um, so it was, it was a fluid group.

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23:58
Y- you know, you describe h- in the book kinda, like, how charity was done or exercised in the Middle Ages, in, in Christendom, which was charity was largely through or under the Church, right? Um, can you explain kinda how, how was, how was charity and poor relief handled, like, before the Reformers came along with this new alternative?

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