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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Reformation Italy » Archive » Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562)

Simonetta Carr wrote the following article for Evangelical Times. It appears on page 24 of the January 2011 issue. With the permission of ET, Carr shared her article with Reformation Italy.

It was the summer of 1542 in Italy. After the previous year’s disappointing attempt to conciliate Roman Catho­lics and Protestants at the Diet of Regensburg, Pope Paul III was pressed on all sides.

In Rome, the consistory had just agreed to renew the Roman Inquisition under the oversight of Cardinal Giampietro Carafa. On the other hand, throughout Italy, embers of the Protestant religion had steadily been flickering into flame, largely promoted by reli­gious orders embracing an Augus­tinian view of justification.

Protestant books were smug­gled in from the north, mostly through Venice. Scholars were arriving from all over Europe, bringing new ideas.

For more of this excellent article, little expounded amongst Anglicans, yet so important to the English Reformation, see:
Reformation Italy » Archive » Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562)

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