The Luther Effect

The Liverpool Salon is a new forum for debate on Merseyside. Part of a global network, based in cities as far a field as Manchester, Leeds, Brighton, Bradford, London, New York and Zurich, the Liverpool Salon fosters thought-provoking, critical conversations around contemporary issues in welcoming and convivial surroundings. Salons were to become central to the intellectual ferment of the end of 18th Century hosting the great thinkers of the time, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire and acting as the seeding ground for ideas that would usher in a new age of democracy and freedom. We share a belief in the importance of people coming together to think, talk and debate in friendly and convivial company. Like them, we believe that ideas are important, if we are to know where the world is going and how we might actively shape the future.

The Liverpool Salon with Ullet Road Unitarian Church

It is 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg in an act of rebellion that shook Europe to its foundations and paved the way for spiritual and political freedom. So how should we remember Martin Luther's Reformation today? As a stepping-stone to modernity and precursor to the Enlightenment? Or is the Luther effect to be found in the darker histories of European nationalisms and religious wars? 
The debate  will open with short introductions by Liverpool Salon members Pauline Hadaway and Kevin Bean  and will be chaired by the Reverend Philip Waldron.  But as always, it's the audience that brings the conversation to life. So please join us. 
And whatever you think of the rebellious monk, he certainly loved Christmas, carol singing and good cheer. So the Liverpool Salon is delighted that the Ullet Road Unitarians are hosting our event in their beautiful Library,  with mulled wine and mince pies around a blazing fire, while the great man looks down from the painted frieze on the ceiling. 
All welcome. There is no charge but donations will be gratefully received.

Ullet Road Unitarian Church

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