From Meissen to Porvoo and Beyond

From: Anglican and Episcopal History | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Arnold, John | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

In its early phase-the 1520s, 30s and 40s-the Reformation in England was much influenced by the Lutheran Reformation, by the writings of Martin Luther and other reformers, by travellers and scholars, by theological conversations such as those held in Wittenberg in 1536, and perhaps even by marriage-Margaret Cranmer being the niece of Andreas Osiander. Martin Bucer, the reformer of Strasbourg, had some influence on the prayer book of 1552. However, the Marian persecution of...

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