Dr Donnelly was invited to the BBC Radio 4 on 7 December 2025 to explore the history of Advent. He discussed Advent’s origins in the early church in Gaul, its development through the Middle Ages in Rome and beyond, the impact of the Reformation on Protestant understandings of the season, and how these traditions inform contemporary practice.
You can listen to the recorded broadcast here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n7rg
Dr Colin Donnelly is an Associate Professor of Reformation and Early Modern Christianities at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, where his work centres on the study of Christian thought and practice in the medieval and Reformation periods.
