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Many Protestants glory in this freedom and individualism-and many of them worry about it. One of the earliest worriers was the founder of Protestantism's Reformed tradition-John Calvin of Geneva. Wrote he to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. chief architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: "The churches are so divided that human fellowship is scarcely now of any repute ... So much does this concern me that if I could be of any service. I would not begrudge traversing ten seas for this purpose...
...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...
...Commemorating the burning of Protestant Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley in 1555, of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer...
RUSSELL E. CRANMER Wichita...
Years ago a rich Denverite, George Ernest Cranmer, conceived the idea of making a theater of the red rocks. White-haired, eagle-eyed little Mr. Cranmer, retired broker, skier, skater, mountain-climber, became Denver's Manager of Improvements and Parks. Four years ago CCC, the National Park Service and the city began the $750,000 job of building the theater...