(Updated 8/12/12) English Reformer: Thomas Becon (1511-1567)

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A few notes on Thomas
Becon, an English Reformer.


1511-1512. Graduate of
St. John's Cambridge. Mentored by Latimer. BA, 1530. There is a “Life of Becon”
by Lupton in “History of Protestant Divines,” London, 1637. Note the use of the
term “Protestant,” as early as 1637, a term disabused by liberals,

450th Anniversary: Bp. John Jewel's "Apology of the Church of England"

Bishop John Jewel,
Diocese of Salisbury


An
Important 450th Anniversary in 2012


      It is the 450th anniversary of the
publication of An Apology of the Church
of England, by Bishop John Jewell (1522-1572), Bishop of Salisbury and
Anglican Reformer. This book was the first scholarly defense of the Elizabethan
settlement. Jewell's works are an excellent statement of Protestant, Reformed,