Word: cranmer
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...also pertinent to recall that the reasons the 200 persons were put to death during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth were not religious but political. Far more significant, however, is the difference between persecution by the churches of the Reformation and death for heresy. Thomas Cranmer protested against faith by compulsion, and there was a storm of protest in Protestant churches against Calvin's part in the burning of Servetus. We have to bear the burdens of our history but we also have to make distinctions. (THE REV.) JUNIUS J. MARTIN Christ Church, Frederica Saint Simons Island...