Anglican Watch: Gerald Bray on "Reformed Anglicans"

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/anglican-way/

The Anglican Way

by Gerald Bray

 

The English Reformation produced the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as its foundational documents. Both represent the more Reformed (as opposed to Lutheran) phase of the English reformation, though they are closer to patristic and medieval traditions than most Reformed

ABC Thomas Cranmer's Ambitious Legacy

http://www.historytoday.com/diarmaid-macculloch/cranmers-ambiguous-legacy

 

Cranmer's Ambiguous Legacy







By Diarmaid MacCulloch







Diarmaid MacCulloch reflects on the 'after-life' of Henry VIII's archbishop, burnt at the stake as a Protestant martyr under Mary.

 


Portrait of Cranmer after Henry VIII's death by an unknown artistArchbishop Thomas Cranmer died at the stake in 1556,

"Narratives of the Reformation" by John Foxe (1516-1587)

Narratives of the Reformation by John Foxe (1516-1587), an oddly indifferent issue for American Anglicans, is discoverable at:
http://archive.org/details/narrativesofdays77foxeuoft

ABC Thomas Cranmer's Alma Mater: Jesus College, Cambridge

At age fourteen in 1503, Cranmer began collegiate
studies at Jesus College, Cambridge.  He
maintained connections with Cambridge until his death in 1556.

A virtual tour of the Chapel at Jesus College,
Cambridge:

http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/virtual-tour.html

The Chapel Court at Jesus College, Cambridge:

http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/virtual-tour.html

The “First Court” at Jesus College,

St. John of Beverly, Whatton, Nottingshire: Cranmer's Home Parish

John Cranmer, father of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, was buried here in 1501.

http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/churches/whatton.htm














St John of Beverley, Whatton

ABC Thomas Cranmer's Home Parish: St. John of Beverly, Whatton, Nottinghamshire

A lovely, excellent and scholarly piece on Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Of note, the church where Cranmer was baptized is (likely to be) St. John of Beverly, Whatton, UK.   We would like to see certified copies of the records, e.g. baptism, marriages, burials.  Aslockton and Whatton, two hamlets, are approximately 122 miles near due north of London. The church has an inscription on a floor for