![]() ![]() However, my understanding of that era was significantly challenged and changed by reading Eamon Duffy’s deeply-informative reassessment of Reformation historiography: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (New Haven: Yale University Press, c. ![]() In graduate school I studied ancient and medieval history, but my knowledge of the English Reformation was largely derived from textbooks-and they generally cast a positive light on the English Reformation and its established Protestant church. In time I also learned that John Wesley was, throughout his life, a priest in the Church of England, so Nazarenes derive their heritage not from Luther and Calvin but from the church brought into being by King Henry VIII in the 1530s. Growing up in the Church of the Nazarene I learned we were Wesleyans-a theological position demonstrably different from both Catholicism and Calvinism. ![]()
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