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Today's episode will be an interview about the Reformation in Spain

with Andres Mesba, who is the academic dean

at Seville Theological Seminary,

and he also goes by Andrew or Andy because he's actually from the United States

despite that introduction. So hello Andy

Hi Peter really nice to be with you.

Thank you for joining us.

We are going to be talking about, as I just said, a kind of surprising subject, which is the

Reformation in Spain and even Protestantism in Spain.

And as I said to you before when we were talking about this,

I was surprised that there's anything to discuss here

because obviously we think of Spain as a Catholic country and we probably

think that this church authorities did a pretty good job of stopping Protestantism from really

getting much of a foothold in Spain. So can you say something about why there is anything for you to work on?

Yeah, that is a great question and I often forget that because I kind of live in this day by day.

I'm always reading their works and studying this out.

So I forget how surprising it is for people to find out that there were Protestants in Spain, that there are Protestants in Spain.

And just to maybe illustrate that, Martin Luther, just one reformer, we have more of his works than all of the Spanish reformers combined. So there isn't a pun to work with.

Yeah, there is a bit of a problem that we have in fact, even just we're talking about the Spanish Reformation,

just defying the limits of exactly what we're talking about,

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