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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Cambridge

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The city of Cambridge in the United Kingdom is home to several churches and academic institutions that are steeped in church history. Today, Dr. Stephen Nichols takes us on a tour of this English city.

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0:00.0

We'll welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History for this month

0:10.8

of February and the year 2023. Five minutes in Church History will be conducting a world

0:17.2

tour. We are going to visit four significant cities this month and we will begin with the

0:22.9

charming and fabled city of Cambridge. The town takes its name as a bridge over the river

0:30.5

camp and so Cain Bridge was a place for clerics and trade from the 800s to the 1200s.

0:37.5

The town of course is synonymous with its university and it was founded in 1209. We learned that

0:43.9

it was founded by scholars taking refuge from hostile townsmen and Oxford who then migrated to

0:51.5

Cambridge and settled there. There is nothing more difficult for a scholar to contend with than

0:57.7

hostile townsmen and whatever the issue was back in Oxford it sent these particular scholars to

1:04.0

Cambridge. As an aside, Cambridge is the third oldest university. The first is Bologna and Bologna

1:12.0

Italy. The second is the aforementioned Oxford and then thirdly is Cambridge. Cambridge University

1:18.4

is comprised of various colleges. I want to talk about a few of those colleges that have a fascinating

1:24.2

history in their own right. The first is Trinity College. It was founded in 1546 by Henry VIII.

1:31.5

Trinity College Chapel with its stained glass windows tells the entire story of Church History. It

1:37.8

begins up in the front with some of the church fathers and then goes through some of the medieval

1:42.1

figures the reformers and right into the 1718 hundreds. If you ever want to teach a Church history

1:48.0

class in one place you probably would do no better than to go to Trinity College Chapel and use

1:53.7

its windows. Just outside the chapel is the courtyard. The 400 yard perimeter and top is the clock.

2:03.2

The clock that strikes 12 and takes 43 seconds to do it and yes this is the site of the famous

2:09.6

courtyard run and annual event for the students of Cambridge. The other college is a manual.

2:16.6

It was founded in 1584 as a Puritan college. It was founded by Sir Walter Midmoney and when he met

2:24.0

with Queen Elizabeth I, she said to him, I see you erected a Puritan foundation. He replied,

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