Peter Marshall: The Origins of the English Reformation Reconsidered

This is a talk in the series Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms.
How different might the first years of the English Reformation look if we try to view them forwards rather than backwards, remembering that the first generation of converts to reform were not early “Protestants,” but late medieval Catholic Christians? This lecture will argue that we need to see the concerns of the early Reformation as emerging from, as much as reacting against, the mainstream devotional priorities of early sixteenth-century Catholicism. It will examine how reformers remained in important ways shaped by their Catholic heritage of ritual and piety, and the implications for understanding the process of conversion.

[@davidevans3227]

..sort of glad Thomas more didn live to see his predictions of the chaos he suspected would happen.. happen..

[@davidthomas9276]

Indeed. The Protestant church has become so splintered and so rife with in-fighting that it has lost its credibility.

[@Kitiwake]

The origins of the English "reformation" was the lack of character of Henry VIII who cried like a child when he didn't get his way.