his Church in England is one of history’s greatest and most enduring dramas. The restoration and reformation of the Church in England in the sixteenth century hinged on a great truth, that it was—and still is—possible for a church to be catholic2 without being Roman Catholic. At its core, the English Reformation was an effort to maintain the church’s catholic (or “universal”) heritage while at the same time reasserting its independence from the Roman Catholic Church. The English Reformation was
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