Does this explain the hair-shirt relationship Anglicans sometimes have with its Calvinistic formularies (the Thirty-nine Articles, the Homilies, and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer)?

The extent of the change would have been obvious to anyone walking into a fully reformed English church building in 1553.

Roman Catholics in the Middle Ages feared sudden death more than anything else because they lived with the awful uncertainty about their final salvation.

Bishops should loosely hold their office in the face of God's sufficiency and not their own.

There are countless stories of people sitting in church pews, or picking up a Gideon Bible in a hotel room in a moment of boredom or desperation, or challenged by a friend to read the gospel of John, and while doing so, they discover the God whose story it tells.

Twelve-year old Princess Elizabeth gave her stepmother an extraordinary new year’s present December 30, 1545.

A codfish that was caught that morning was being gutted and prepared for sale, and found inside its belly was a half-digested, sail-wrapped manuscript.

It is completely possible (even probable!) that you can go to an evangelical church and hear a thoroughly biblical message about what we can and should do for God, and never once hear what God in Christ has done for you.

I saw Jane’s tragic destiny and wished to possess her courage.

The English Reformation was just a bump in the road. Inconsequential, really.

The settlers in Jamestown understood this. Do we?

For a sixteenth century priest to break their vow and to take a wife was a major act of rebellion. And so it was for women who married clergyman. 

In 1548 the task of writing a Book of Common Prayer was given to a committee of six bishops and six other learned men (mostly Tudor humanists) under Cranmer’s leadership.

Cranmer included an epiclesis in his first Book of Common Prayer (1549), but it was a mistake that he soon regretted and changed.

Protestants do not find the primacy-of-Peter in the Bible, neither do we recognize a centralized authority with permission to mix biblical and unbiblical teachings (magisterium) to instruct Christians about what to believe.

The “incarnational” slogan represents  a remarkable shift in the history of Christian thought: from Calvary to Bethlehem… from the finished work of Christ for our salvation to the life of Christ as an example to follow for moral improvement.

Whenever he speaks of someone’s faith, Cranmer charitably assumes they are believers. This is not just “English politeness,” but a humble acknowledgement that God is God and we are not.

His writings and ideas so significantly influenced the Church of England that Anglicanism can be fairly described as not only generally Protestant, but “reformed.”

How was it that prior to the Oxford revival there was significant, settled unity around Anglican‘s historic formularies (the Thirty-nine Articles, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Homilies) while the church that emerged from the fog of Oxford was polarized and fractured into “parties” that stay with us today?