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,

Diarmaid MacCulloch in Telegraph: Three Cheers for the Declined Anglican Covenant

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/25/anglican-covenant-bishops-division?commentpage=all#start-of-comments.  Diarmaid MacCulloch gives a few cheers for the declined Anglican Covenant, an alleged instrument to centralize the Anglican beaucracy and, as a result, sanction the wayward Episcopalians in the US and Canada on the gay issues.  Here's the news:  Anglicans have left