The little-known, last-minute act of courage and faith. Thomas Cranmer is mostly remembered today for his wise and beautiful crafting of The Book of Common Prayer, one of the masterpieces of the ...

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The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 451-469 (19 pages) English Catholics attacked Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's eucharistic views. Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, ...

When Henry VIII withdrew the English Church from its allegiance to Rome in 1534, no one knew whether the new national church would align with the Reformation then sweeping across Europe or, conversely ...

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Judy Pollard Smith (letter -- Feb. 22) is right about the beauty of Thomas Cranmer's liturgy, but he certainly was not willing to die for it. While in prison, he made two or three recantations of his ...